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Canaan's flowings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of…Canaans flovvings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of…
Canaan's flowings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of many Christian experiences, sayings, &c. : with an appendix called The heathen improved, or, The Gibeonites hewing of wood, and drawing of water for the sanctuary / by Ralph Venning.Canaans flovvings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of many Christian experiences, sayings, &c. : with an appendix called The heathen improved, or, The Gibeonites hewing of wood, and drawing of water for the sanctuary / by Ralph Venning.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1653
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
122. Numa Pampilius put so much confidence in the gods, that one day when it was told him, that his enemies were in arms against him, his answer was, and I sacrifice. Plut. in vit. Thus said David, Psalm 109.3, 4. They sought against me without a cause, but I gave my self unto Prayer.
123. Brutus visiting Ligarius, and asking him, what, sick, Ligarius? no, Brutus, said he, if thou ⟨p. 228⟩have any noble enterprise in hand, I am well: So should a soul say for Christ.
124. Some write of Epaminondas, a famous Theban, and some of Philip King of Macedon, that after high and unexpected Victories, they became (in their outward appearance at least) very sad, more like Mourners then Triumphers, for no other reason then for fear of some eminent disaster; for they held it ominous among the Ancients, to have long prosperity: One of them hath this good saying, though ill enough meant by him; God will not endure that any should think well of himself, but himself. 'Tis much according to Scripture-discovery, that when men glory in their pride, God stains the pride of their glory.