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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. No Abraham, take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, ⟨p. 98⟩whom thou lovest, and get thee into the Land of Moriah, and offer him there, no where but there.
God. No Abraham, take now thy son, thine onely son Isaac, ⟨p. 98⟩whom thou lovest, and get thee into the Land of Moriah, and offer him there, no where but there.
Thus you have seen, if not a faith of Miracles, yet a Miracle of faith, that one who had so much, and more to say, should say nothing, but rise up early in the morning (after he had slept upon it, if sleep he could) and saddle his ass, and take two of his young men, and Isaac his son, and cleave the wood, and rise up and go to the place; and lest he should be interrupted by his servants, he left them with the asses, and lays the wood upon his son, his son Isaac, (he must bear his cross) and when this innocent soul, this Lamb did open his mouth (not to complain) but to ask for another, he tells him, (could Abraham tell him without a sigh?) that God would provide; and what's Abraham about to do now? what to bind him? Ah, Abraham, was thine heart in thy ⟨p. 99⟩hand, or thy hand in thine heart? What, and lay him on the Altar! Tears, Abraham, tears. What, and stretch forth his hand, and take the knife, to slay his son! Oh wonder! Yet Abraham is so far from holding or praying to God to hold his hand, that the Lord himself cries out, Oh Abraham, hold thy hand.
Thus you have seen, if not a faith of Miracles, yet a Miracle of faith, that one who had so much, and more to say, should say nothing, but rise up early in the morning (after he had slept upon it, if sleep he could) and saddle his asse, and take two of his young men, and Isaac his son, and cleave the wood, and rise up and goe to the place; and lest he should be interrupted by his servants, he left them with the asses, and laies the wood upon his son, his son Isaac, (he must bear his crosse) and when this innocent soul, this Lamb did open his mouth (not to complain) but to ask for another, he tells him, (could Abraham tell him without a sigh?) that God would provide; and what's Abraham about to doe now? what to binde him? Ah, Abraham, was thine heart in thy