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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.
42. Agrippa having suffered imprisonment for wishing Caius to be Emperor, was the first that was preferred by Caius when he came to be Emperor, and had a chain of gold given him as heavy as the chain of iron that was on him in prison. If we suffer for Christ, we shall also reign with him; and if our afflictions abound, our consolations ⟨p. 195⟩shall abound much more; for our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding eternal weight of glory. Men may suffer for Christ, but they shall not lose by it.
42. Agrippa having suffered imprisonment for wishing Caius to be Emperour, was the first that was preferr'd by Caius when he came to be Emperour, and had a chain of gold given him as heavy as the chain of iron that was on him in prison. If we suffer for Christ, we shall also reign with him; and if our afflictions abound, our consolations ⟨p. 195⟩shall abound much more; for our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding eternal weight of glory. Men may suffer for Christ, but they shall not lose by it.
43. The Gauls when they had tasted the sweet wine of Italy, asked where the Grapes grew, and would never be quiet till they came there: they that taste the sweet wine of heavenly consolations, will never be quiet till they come to Heaven.
43. The Gauls when they had tasted the sweet wine of Italy, askt where the Grapes grew, and would never bee quiet till they came there: they that taste the sweet wine of heavenly consolations, will never be quiet till they come to Heaven.