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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.
Be astonished, O Heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, Jer. ⟨p. 69⟩2.11, 12, 13. Why? Whats the matter? the matter! 'tis this, My people have committed two evils, they have forsaken me without a cause, and have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Oh sinners, let me say to you, as Saul to his servants, 1 Sam. 22.7. Hear now ye Benjamites, will the son of Jesse give every one of you Fields and Vineyards, and make you Captains of thousands? Oh poor Souls, will sin, will Satan, will the world give you Heaven and Eternal life? Why will you be so unreasonable to sin against God, and wrong your own souls? Oh hear, and fear, and do no more so wickedly.
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A sight (one sight) of Jesus Christ doth more ravish and overcome a soul, then all the reports that can be made of him; the tongue of men and Angels cannot set him forth so lively and lovely as a poor soul finds him. Who can believe honey to ⟨p. 70⟩be so sweet, as he that hath tasted it knows it to be? the daughters of Jerusalem wonder at the daughter of Zion, when sick of love, and say, What is thy beloved, more then another beloved? Why so fond? Oh says the soul, his mouth is most sweet, yea, he is all desires —altogether lovely; this is my beloved, this, Oh this is my beloved. When poor creatures come to know him as by himself made known to them in his beauty, they then say as