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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.
241. When a poor soul considers what God hath done for him, in admitting him into communion with himself, to eat bread at his Table continually, he cries out (even weeping for admiration) as Mephibosheth did, 2 Sam. 9.8. What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look on such a dead dog as I am! Such a God, on such a dog! And when he considers from what a low, to what an high estate God hath brought him, he saith as Jacob, Gen. 32.10. I am less then the least of all thy mercies, and of all the truth which thou hast shown me, for with my staff I went over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands. And when Jesus Christ tells a soul, that he will make him a King, and a Priest to God, he humbly saith as Saul to Samuel, 1 Sam. 9.21. Am not I a ⟨p. 74⟩Benjamite, •f the smallest of the Tribes of Israel? And my family the least of all the families of the Tribe of Benjamin? Ah Lord, wherefore speakest thou so to me? Yea, it says as Elisabeth said to Mary, the blessed Mother of blessed Jesus, when she heard the salutation, that the babe (the heart of a poor believer) leapt within her, and she spake, yea, she spake aloud; Blessed, yea blessed art thou, whence! Oh whence is this to me, that the Mother of my Lord (Oh saith the soul, that my God) should come to see me, even me, poor worthless me! That it fares with them as with them, Luke 24.36--42. Jesus stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you; and they were terrified and affrighted: but he said, Why are ye troubled? it is I; behold my hands and my feet, and they believed not for joy and wondered.
241. When a poor soul considers what God hath done for him, in admitting him into communion with himself, to eat bread at his Table continually, he cries out (even weeping for admiration) as Mephibosheth did, 2 Sam. 9.8. What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look on such a dead dog as I am! Such a God, on such a dog! And when he considers from what a low, to what an high estate God hath brought him, he saith as Jacob,