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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.
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.
God. Well then, saith God, hearken and obey, this is to do justice, ⟨p. 95⟩this is (Oh wonder) to show mercy; this is to walk humbly with thy God.
God. Well then, saith God, hearken and obey, this is to do justice, ⟨p. 95⟩this is (Oh wonder) to shew mercy; this is to walk humbly with thy God.
Abraham. Seeing I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, I will yet say, Lord, he is the son of the promise, in whom (thou hast said that) all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; now Lord, if he die, and die a child without children, where then is the blessedness thou spakest of? what will become of the blessing?