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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.
248. Not Heaven, but God in Heaven.
If a Saint were in Heaven, and saw not Gods face there, he would say as Absalom said to Joab, 2 Sam. 14.32. Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to be there still, unless I may see the Kings face. Though Heaven ⟨p. 82⟩be Gods dwelling place, yea, his Presence-Chamber, yet a Saint could not be at rest there, if he saw not God: 'tis not the Jasper, nor the Chrystal, 'tis not the pure Gold wherewith the streets are paved, 'tis not the pearls, nor the precious stones that are precious in his sight, but the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, who are the light thereof: Whom have I in Heaven but thee?
If a Saint were in Heaven, and saw not Gods face there, he would say as Absolom said to Joab, 2 Sam. 14.32. Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to be there still, unlesse I may see the Kings face. Though Heaven ⟨p. 82⟩be Gods dwelling place, yea, his Presence-Chamber, yet a Saint could not be at rest there, if he saw not God: 'tis not the Jasper, nor the Chrystal, 'tis not the pure Gold wherewith the streets are paved, 'tis not the pearls, nor the precious stones that are precious in his sight, but the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, who are the light thereof: Whom have I in Heaven but thee?
249. God more then self.