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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.
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 ⟨p. 216⟩for Christ Jesus, meets with him, she ravish'd with joy, cries out, I have found him whom my soul loveth.
96. Said one, and I suppose a Roman, it is unbecoming a Roman spirit, to cry out, I am undone, while Caesar is safe. Oh how unbecoming Christians to cry out I am undone, while Christ and their interest in him is safe.
96. Said one, and I suppose a Roman, it is unbecomming a Roman spirit, to cry out, I am undone, while Caesar is safe. Oh how unbecoming Christians to cry out I am undone, while Christ and their interest in him is safe.
97. Galienus the Emperor, when the report came to him that Egypt was lost, what then, (said he) cannot I live without the flax of Egypt? And when word was brought that a great part of his Dominions in Asia was wasted, what then (said he) cannot I live without the delicacies of Asia? Oh for Christians to speak thus of any of their losses, from a principle of acquaintance with and enjoyment of God, is excellent. 'Tis like, very like, yea very much like that of