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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.
293. Saying of prayer without praying.
Many men say the Lords-prayer which do not pray it; they (as Augustine before Conversion when he prayed for Chastity) are afraid lest God should hear them; they do not care that God should say Amen, or so be it, though they themselves will say so; they say, Our father, but if he be their father, where is his honour? they say, which art in heaven, but did they believe it, how durst they sin as they do on earth? they say, hallowed be thy name, yet take Gods name in vain; they say, thy kingdom come, yet oppose ⟨p. 226⟩the coming of his Kingdom: they say thy will be done on earth as it is heaven, yet will not stand to their words, for this is the will of God their sanctification, but they will none of that. They say, give us this day our daily bread, yet mind not the feeding of their souls with the bread (Christ Jesus) which came down from heaven. They say forgive us as we forgive others, but alas, if God should take them to their word, how undone were they, whose hearts burn with malice & revenge, even while they pray, or say thus; for forgiveness they say, lead us not into temptation, yet run into it, and tempt the devil himself to tempt them. They say, deliver us from evil, and yet deliver themselves to evil, and give up themselves to fulfil the wills of the flesh, &c. yea, it hath bin observed, that they sin most against this prayer, who stickle most for the saying of this prayer.
Many men say the Lords-prayer which doe not pray it; they (as Austine before Conversion when he prayed for Chastity) are afraid lest God should heare them; they doe not care that God should say Amen, or so be it, though they themselvs wil say so; they say, Our father, but if he be their father, where is his honour? they say, which art in heaven, but did they believe it, how durst they sin as they doe on earth? they say, hallowed be thy name, yet take Gods name in vain; they say, thy kingdome come, yet oppose ⟨p. 226⟩