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Ralph Venning
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“All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.”
Ralph Venning (1621–1674) first seen 1647 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Triumph of Assurance", Orthodox Paradoxes, Or, A Believer Clearing Truth by Seeming Contradictions (1647), p. 41. Compare: "Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep", Mathew…
“He accounts himself lesse then the least of all mercies; and yet he looks on the greatest as his due.”
Ralph Venning (1621–1674) first seen 1647 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Triumph of Assurance", Orthodox Paradoxes, Or, A Believer Clearing Truth by Seeming Contradictions (1647), p. 48-49.
“They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.”
Ralph Venning (1621–1674) first seen 1649 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mysteries and Revelations, p. 5. (1649). Compare: "There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God, Than from theyr children to spare the rod." John Skelton, Magnyfycence, line 1954.
“Courteous reader, 'tis said of scripture that it is deep enough for an elephant to swim in, and yet shallow enough for a lamb to wade through.”
Ralph Venning (1621–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the late 1640s, in Ian Green, Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England (2002), p. 101.
“Sin is anti-will to God's will; it sets itself to oppose preaching, prayer, and all the institutions of God.”
Ralph Venning (1621–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Confession of sin and repentance gives glory to God (Joshua 7:19) and sin endeavors to obstruct and hinder this.”
Ralph Venning (1621–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the first evidences of man's sinfulness and misery by it, was that he could not endure, but hid himself from the voice and face of God (Genesis 3:8).”
Ralph Venning (1621–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is sin but a departure from God? And what is the doom of sinners but departure from God? Depart from us is the cry of sinners to God. Depart from me will be the cry of God to sinners.”
Ralph Venning (1621–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the beauty of the world, 't is but skin deep.”
Ralph Venning (1621–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source