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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 3: The third 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.
239. The Sinner speechless.
No man can give any reason why he should sin against God; if God should ask men, as he did the man that had not on the wedding garment, Why camest thou bither without a wedding garment? So, why art thou proud? and thou wanton? and thou unclean? and thou covetous, and thou drunk, and why dost thou swear, &c? Men would be as he, that is, speechless; they could give no reason, for indeed there is no reason to give. One may say to sinners as Absalom said to Hushai. is this thy kindness to thy friend? Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? What iniquity ⟨p. 68⟩have your fathers, may God say, or you found in me? What can you lay to my charge? Am not I a lovely and a loving God? Can any bid more for your love then I? Can any do more for you then I? If you can speed better, and mend your market, go away and leave me; if not, why will ye spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which satisfieth not? If you can find no fault with me, why will you commit such a fault as to leave me? What cause have you to say, We will not come to thee? Is it a crime to feed you? Is it a crime to clothe you? Is it a crime to preserve you? Is it a crime to send my Son into the world to save you? Is it a crime to beseech and beg you (as for an alms) that you would be reconciled, and be happy? forgive me this wrong.
No man can give any reason why he should sin against God; if God should ask men, as he did the man that had not on the wedding garment, Why camest thou bither without a wedding garment? So, why art thou proud? and thou wanton? and thou unclean? and thou covetous, and thou drunk, and why dost thou swear, &c? Men would be as he, that is, speechlesse; they could give no reason, for indeed there is no reason to give. One may say to sinners as Absolom said to Hushai. is this thy kindnesse to thy friend? Doe ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? What iniquity ⟨p. 68⟩