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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.
310. We are to labour for what the Son of man giveth, and God will be sought for that which he will do for the house of Israel; Gods promises and our prayers are middle things between Gods purposes and our attainments.
310. We are to labour for what the Son of man giveth, and God will be sought for that which he will doe for the house of Israel; Gods promises and our prayers are middle things between Gods purposes and our attainments.
—God expecteth we should crave The mercy he intendeth we should have.
311. Gods being sometimes better then his word, (in doing that which he never engaged himself by promise to do, and so doing above, exceeding abundantly ⟨p. 140⟩above all that we were able to ask or think, in being found of them that seek him not) is no indulgence to idleness, or dispensation from duty: We are not to mind what God can do, or doth do, but what God hath said he will do, and the way wherein: if ever we expect to enjoy what's promised, we must do what's commanded; laboranti & speranti Deus dabit: Though God have promised to give to them that ask, yet he hath not promised to give without asking: and seeing 'tis but ask, and have; we may not blame God for not giving, but our selves for not asking; and if we ask, and miss, we may blame our selves for asking amiss.
311. Gods being sometimes better then his word, (in doing that which he never engaged himself by promise to doe, and so doing above, exceeding abundantly ⟨p. 140⟩