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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.
Ah my dear Lord, divorce my self from me! Then single I will singly worship thee: Yet one wish more, for better two then one, And 'tis not good for man to be alone. That I may to thee double honour give, Let thine in me, and me in thy Spirit live.
Ah my dear Lord, divorce my self from mee! Then single I will singly worship thee: Yet one wish more, for better two then one, And 'tis not good for man to be alone. That I may to thee double honor give, Let thine in me, and me in thy Spirit live.
260. An heavenly use of earthly things.
Use recreations, and that which is more necessary, very eating, and drinking, and sleeping, not as things ⟨p. 203⟩which thou likest, but as things which thou lackest; not out of lust, but necessity: Look on all the pleasures of this world, either as sins or snares, and then thou wilt not take too much pleasure in this world. Use all Earthly things as thou dost a pair of stairs, by which thou goest up to thy chamber, but still keepest them under thy feet; though thou put forth thine hand, yet keep in thine heart, and be sure that while the things of earth have thy body, the things of Heaven may have thy soul: though all things be lawful to thee, yet come not under the power of any. Let not thy servants be thy masters: thou wert not made to serve thine estate, thy body, and thy sensual appetite, but they were made to serve thee. Use thine estate then to serve thy bodily-occasions, and thy body to serve thy soul-occasions, and thy soul to observe Gods Commandments; thus all thou ⟨p. 104⟩doest will be a glory to thee, because all that's thus done (decently and in order) is done to the glory of God: and thus while others turn their service of God into a bodily exercise, thou mayest turn thy bodily exercise into the service of God.