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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.
A Saint cares not how ill it go with him, so it go well with Jesus Christ; he saith, as Mephibosheth to David, 2 Sam. 19.30. yea, let him take all, inasmuch as my Lord the King is come again in peace unto his house. So it may go well with Gods name, Moses cares not though his be blotted out of the book of life: and said John, he must increase, but I must decrease, this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
A Saint cares not how ill it goe with him, so it goe well with Jesus Christ; he saith, as Mephibosheth to David, 2 Sam. 19.30. yea, let him take all, inasmuch as my Lord the King is come again in peace unto his house. So it may goe well with Gods name, Moses cares not though his be blotted out of the book of life: and said John, he must increase, but I must decrease, this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
250. Little faith in the world concerning the world.
A Gentlewoman being told that the world and the glory of it was but vanity; 'tis true said she, Solomon said so, but he tried it first, and so will I. Alas, that we cannot take Gods word, we cannot believe till (nor scarce when) we see: the world bewitcheth us before we will believe it to be a Witch; we believe it not to be poison, till we are poisoned.
A Gentlewoman being told that the world and the glory of it was but vanity; 'tis true said she, Solomon said so, but he tryed it first, and so will I. Alas, that we cannot take Gods word, we cannot believe till (nor scarce when) we see: the world bewitcheth us before we will believe it to be a Witch; we believe it not to be poyson, till we are poysoned.