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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. Well, saith God, I take but mine own, and I may do with mine own what I please; I that give may take; and therefore mind not you what the world will say, but what I say; and I say, offer thy son.
God. Well, saith God, I take but mine own, and I may do with mine own what I please; I that give may take; and therefore minde not you what the world will say, but what I say; and I say, offer thy son.
Abraham. But Lord, hast thou not commanded me to do no murder, and must I now imbrue mine hands in blood? and in mine own blood too? Oh happy I, might my blood go for his! Oh Isaac, Isaac, my son Isaac, my son, my son, would God I might die for thee, Oh Isaac, my son, my son! Lord, how can this stand with the Law which thou hast given me?
Abraham. But Lord, hast thou not commanded me to do no murther, and must I now imbrue mine hands in blood? and in mine own blood too? Oh happy I, might my blood go for his! Oh Isaac, Isaac, my son Isaac, my son, my son, would God I might die for thee, Oh Isaac, my son, my son! Lord, how can this stand with the Law which thou hast given me?
God. Abraham, saith God, such things are not first just, and then willed ⟨p. 94⟩by me, but willed by me, and therefore just. Abraham, do you not know that I can repeal, or make exceptions? 'tis I that say it, therefore do it. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? gird up now thy loins like a man, smite him, kill him; have not I commanded thee? be courageous and a son of valour, go and offer thy son.
God. Abraham, saith God, such things are not first just, and then willed