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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
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.
THE HEATHEN IMPROVED. OR, The Gibeonites hewing of wood and drawing of water for the Sanctuary.
1. Scipio made his boast, that there was not one of his soldiers but would adventure their lives for him, if it were to leap into the sea, or to cast themselves down an high tower, if he required it. How much them should Christians be at Christs command, and not love their lives unto the death, especially seeing all his commands are holy, just, and good.
1. SCipio made his boast, that there was not one of his souldiers but would adventure their lives for him, if it were to leap into the sea, or to cast themselves down an high towre, if he required it. How much them should Christians be at Christs command, and not love their lives unto the death, especially seeing all his commands are holy, just, and good.
2. When news came to Anaxagoras of the death of his son, at ⟨p. 176⟩which they thought he would have been much troubled, he said, I begat him mortal. Should not Christians much more quiet themselves at the loss of children, which though they beget mortal, yet not without hope of immortality.