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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.
5. Plutarch in his Epistle Consolatory to his wife, on the death of a child, among many other arguments hath this. We must always think well of what the Gods do. And shall not Christians think well of what God doth, and say as Hezekiah, good is the word, and good is the work of the Lord.
5. Plutarch in his Epistle Consolatory to his wife, on the death of a childe, among many other arguments hath this. We must alwaies think well of what the Gods doe. And shall not Christians think well of what God doth, and say as Hezekiah, good is the word, and good is the work of the Lord.
6. A Roman servant knowing that his Master was sought for to be put to death, put himself into his Masters clothes, that he might be taken for him, and so was, and put to death, in memory whereof his Master erected a brazen statue. Oh what Monuments shall we erect for Christ, who when we were to be put to death would die for us! for a good man some would dare to die, and greater love then this cannot be shown, then that a man may lay down his life for a friend; but behold, herein God manifesteth and commendeth his love to us, that while we were yet sinners, yea enemies, Christ dyed for us.
7. Phoeion an Athenian Captain, being condemned to death, & seeing one Cnippus condemned to the same death, but very fearful, he comforts him with these words, is it not enough to thee that thou art to due with Phocion? Should it not comfort us in our suffering, that we dye with Christ?
7. Phoeion an Athenian Captain, being condemned to death, & seeing one Cnippus condēned to the same death, but very fearful, he comforts him with these words, is it not enough to thee that thou art to dve with Phocion? Should it not comfort us in our suffering, that we dye with Christ?