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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 gives all men leave to pray, but he gives his people leave to be bold in prayer; and that not only for themselves, to say, as Jacob, I will not let thee go, but for others, as Moses for Israel; and as Luther said, thy will be done. Remarkable is the boldness which Abraham used with God, in the case of Sodom, Gen. 18.23. where he seems at the first dash to charge God with a kind of injustice, and ⟨p. 101⟩yet but upon a peradventure; six times he comes to God, and always with but a peradventure; he fell (a great fall) from fifty to ten, & that but with a peradventure, and yet God gives him the hearing; yea, seems willing to have taken less, if Abraham had but had the boldness to bring his fifty to five.
God gives all men leave to pray, but he gives his people leave to be bold in prayer; and that not onely for themselves, to say, as Jacob, I will not let thee goe, but for others, as Moses for Israel; and as Luther said, thy will be done. Remarkable is the boldnes which Abraham used with God, in the case of Sodome, Gen. 18.23. where he seems at the first dash to charge God with a kinde of injustice, and ⟨p. 101⟩yet but upon a peradventure; six times he comes to God, and alwaies with but a peradventure; he fell (a great fall) from fifty to ten, & that but with a peradventure, and yet God gives him the hearing; yea, seems willing to have taken lesse, if Abraham had but had the boldnesse to bring his fifty to five.
Is God no more Almighty? What is Prayer? Bold creature, Prayer becomes God's Conqueror. Rare Stratagem of war! Prayer wins the field, Yet God's not overcome, but God doth yield.
Is God no more Almighty? What is Pray'r? Bold creature, Pray'r becomes God's Conquerour. Rare Stratagem of war! Pray'r wins the field, Yet God's not overcome, but God doth yield.