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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. 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 ⟨p. 94⟩by me, but willed by me, and therefore just. Abraham, doe you not know that I can repeal, or make exceptions? 'tis I that say it, therefore doe it. Who is this that darkneth counsel by words without knowledge? gird up now thy loins like a man, smite him, kill him; have not I commanded thee? be couragious and a son of valour, goe and offer thy son.
Abraham. But good Lord, thou hast made this exception, when thou didst show man what was good, and pleasing in thine eyes, thou wouldest not that he should give his first-born for his transgression, nor the fruit of his body for the sins of his soul, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God; to obey (thou sayest it) is better then sacrifice, and to hearken then the fat of rams.
Abraham. But good Lord, thou hast made this exception, when thou didst shew man what was good, and pleasing in thine eyes, thou wouldest not that he should give his first-born for his transgression, nor the fruit of his body for the sins of his soul, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God; to obey (thou sayest it) is better then sacrifice, and to hearken then the fat of rams.