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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.
Oh that Saints would learn from Heathen, to lay aside their particular differences, to mind public advantage. Shall, alas! shall Heathens be better at self-denial then Christians?
Oh that Saints would learn from Heathen, to lay aside their particular differences, to mind publick advantage. Shall, alas! shall Heathens be better at self-denial then Christians?
94. Artaxerxes ready to perish with thirst, was constrained to drink puddle-water, of which he profest that he never drank wine with more delight. To the hungry souls, every bitter thing is sweet. In times of straits, a little is much, and that that's very bad, is very good.
94. Artaxerxes ready to perish with thirst, was constrain'd to drink puddle-water, of which he profest that he never drank wine with more delight. To the hungry souls, every bitter thing is sweet. In times of straits, a little is much, and that that's very bad, is very good.
95. When Archimedes had found out the resolution of a question in the Mathematics, he cries out as one ravished [Greek or Hebrew], I have found it, I have found it: So when a soul that hath been sick of love ⟨p. 216⟩for Christ Jesus, meets with him, she ravished with joy, cries out, I have found him whom my soul loveth.
95. When Archimedes had found out the resolution of a question in the Mathematicks, he cries out as one ravisht 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, I have found it, I have found it: So when a soul that hath been sick of love