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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
CANAANS Flowings: OR, More Milk and Honey. BEING Another Collation… › Century 1: The First Century.
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.
52. In the good-natured and well-bred person, a little grace will make a great show; but in an ill-natured and a person not well-bred, a great deal of grace will make but a little show.
52. In the good-natured and welbred person, a little grace wil make a great shew; but in an ill-natured and a person not wel-bred, a great deale of grace wil make but a little shew.
53. I would not (saith one) be always busy and doing, nor ever shut up in nothing but thoughts; yet that which some would call idleness, I would call the sweetest part of my life, and that's my thinking time. Thoughts are good company, if they be good thoughts; and so a man may be never less alone, then when most alone; that is, all alone, when all is but one.
53. I would not (saith one) be alwaies busie and doing, nor ever shut up in nothing but thoughts; yet that which some would call idleness, I would call the sweetest part of my life, and that's my thinking time. Thoughts are good company, if they be good thoughts; and so a man may be never less alone, then when most alone; that is, all alone, when all is but one.
54. God many times awakens them at a Sermon, who came to sleep at a Sermon, so that (I speak it seriously) God takes them napping.