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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.
Gen. 3.5. Your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil. His eyes indeed were ope, And then he had the skill To know the difference Between the good and ill: ⟨p. 160⟩Then did he know how good Good was, when he had lost it, And evil too he knew, But ah how dearly cost it?
Gen. 3.5. Your eyes shall be open'd, and ye shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil. His eyes indeed were o'pe, And then he had the skill To know the difference Between the good and ill: ⟨p. 160⟩Then did he know how good Good was, when he had lost it, And evil too he knew, But ah how dearly cost it?
356. Lawful things are often the occasion of unlawful things: we should use them then (for of them it may be said, as the Apostle of the Law, the Law is good, if a man use it) lawfully. The sins of the old world are described, Luke 17.27, 28. not by unlawful, or things evil in themselves, but becoming such by the abuse. They did eat and drink, &c. which things are necessary to preserve life, and yet by these they lost their lives; they in these things sinned away their lives from the earth, and their souls into bell.
356. Lawful things are often the occasion of unlawful things: we should use them then (for of them it may be said, as the Apostle of the Law, the Law is good, if a man use it) lawfully. The sins of the old world are described, Luke 17.27, 28. not by unlawful, or things evil in themselves, but becoming such by the abuse. They did eat and drink, &c. which things are necessary to preserve life, and yet by these they lost their lives; they in these things sinn'd away their lives from the earth, and their souls into bell.