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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 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.
251. The custom of the Country.
251. The custome of the Countrey.
God hath two daughters; the younger, which is Heaven, is fair and lovely, like Rachel, and courted by all; the elder is Repentance, which (with tears) is blear-eyed, like Leah, and neglected by most: but if men ask, as Jacob for Rachel, God will answer as Laban did him, 'tis not mos loci, 'tis not the custom of the place to marry the younger before the elder. He that will not marry the Leah of repentance, ⟨p. 84⟩shall never have the Rachel of Heaven.
God hath two daughters; the younger, which is Heaven, is fair and lovely, like Rachel, and courted by all; the elder is Repentance, which (with tears) is blearey'd, like Leah, and neglected by most: but if men ask, as Jacob for Rachel, God will answer as Laban did him, 'tis not mos loci, 'tis not the custome of the place to marry the younger before the elder. He that will not marry the Leah of repentance,