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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.
When a poor soul begins to be sensible of sin and its danger thereby, though it lye down in sorrow, yet it should not mourn as without hopes; but resolve as the Lepers. 2. Kings. 7.3. to prefer (though an uncertain) hope, before a certain death. Say as they, why sit we here until we dye? if we enter into the City, the famine is there, and we shall certainly dye; if we sit still here, we dye also: now therefore come, let us fall (for the host of the Syrians, let the poor soul say) into the hands of God, if he save us alive we shall live, if he kill us, we shall but dye. ⟨p. 78⟩Dye? Oh poor souls, never any came to God by Christ, but they were saved alive; Come to him then for he will not kill you, indeed he will not. Come to him and say as the Prodigal, when he came to himself, how many hired servants of my Fathers have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger. I will arise and go to my Father &c. I, do so, arise and go, for there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. See how his father had compassion on him, how he ran, how he fell on his neck, how he kissed him, and bid him welcome home. Say then as Esther c. 4.16. I will go in unto the King, if I perish, I perish. What soul? perish sayest thou? no, no, the Golden Sceptre is held out, thou mayst come and welcome. God will say as the King to Esther, c. 5.3. What wilt thou, and what is thy request? it shall be given thee, even to the Kingdom; whereupon Esther ⟨p. 79⟩made a feast for the King, but God will make a feast for thee: Dost thou not hear what he saith: Luke 15.22. Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him, put a ring upon his hand, and shoes on his feet, Kill the fatted Calf, let us eat and be merry, for this soul was dead and is alive, 'twas lost, and is found; Oh who would not come to thee, thou, O thou lover of souls?
When a poore soul begins to be sensible of sinne and its danger thereby, though it lye downe in sorrow, yet it should not mourne as without hopes; but resolve as the Lepers.