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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.
God hath Saints of several degrees and sises, and some of them have more Communion with him then others: from among the multitude he chose twelve to be with him, from among the twelve, he chose three (Peter, James, and John) which were è secretioribus of the privy council, from among the three he chose out John as his peculiar darling and bosom favourite, of whom it's said five times, that he was the disciple whom Jesus loved. So now to this day, God hath his babes, who eat milk and nothing else; his Children, who know their Father and are assured of his love; his young men, who go out to war; and the Fathers in Israel whose grey-headed experience ⟨p. 87⟩and wisdom abounds: for they know him from the beginning.
God hath Saints of severall degrees and sises, and some of them have more Communion with him then others: from among the multitude he chose twelve to be with him, from among the twelve, he chose three (Peter, Iames, and Iohn) which were è secretioribus of the privy councell, from among the three he chose out Iohn as his peculiar darling and bosome favorite, of whom it's said five times, that he was the disciple whom Iesus loved. So now to this day, God hath his babes, who eat milk and nothing else; his Children, who know their Father and are assured of his love; his young men, who goe out to warre; and the Fathers in Israel whose gray-headed experience ⟨p. 87⟩and wisedome abounds: for they know him from the beginning.
'Tis a great mercy to be one of Gods, though but one of his little ones, yea the least of all; to be a Star, though not of the first magnitude: to be a Disciple though not a John, nor one of the three, nor one of the twelve, nor one of the seventy. But to be a John, a darling, to lean on his breast, to lye in his bosom, Oh how great a mercy! 'tis mercy to be new borne, though one be but newly & as one newly borne, but to grow up to a perfect Stature to be a man in Christ Jesus, Oh how great a mercy! Lord perfect all that which concerns thy Servant, yea, that which concerns all thy Servants.