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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64808	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.	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1653 (1653)	Wing V198; ESTC R7804	72,507	246

withheld thy son thine onely son Isaac was but a shadow and the offering up of Isaac but a shadow of the offering ●p of the Son of God Oh what a ●ove-token is this herein is the ●●ve of God manifested in this ●od commendeth his love God 〈◊〉 love the world that he gave ●s Son and that to death that his Son might give life to us Was ever love like thine That thou wouldst part with a Son such a Son so precious in himself so precious in thine eyes who was thy Sabbath thy rest in whom thou wert well pleased for sinners for enemies who did wickedly even as they could Ah Lord never was there love like thine Thy love Oh Lord to mee Surpasseth that of Abraham to thee 258. Boldnesse in Prayer God gives all men leave to pray but he gives his people leave to be bold in prayer and that not onely for themselves to say as Jacob I will not let thee goe but for others as Moses for Israel and as Luther said thy will be done Remarkable is the boldnes which Abraham used with God in the case of Sodome Gen. 18.23 where he seems at the first dash to charge God with a kinde of injustice and yet but upon a peradventure six times he comes to God and alwaies with but a peradventure he fell a great fall from fifty to ten that but with a peradventure and yet God gives him the hearing yea seems willing to have taken lesse if Abraham had but had the boldnesse to bring his fifty to five Is God no more Almighty What is Pray'r Bold creature Pray'r becomes God's Conquerour Rare Stratagem of war Pray'r wins the field Yet God 's not overcome but God doth yield 259. Let not the left hand know what the right hand doth When a Christian is about to perform any duty he should say to himself as Abraham said unto his yong men Gen. 22.5 Abide you here with the Asse and I and the lad will goe yonder and worship onely let him leave out this and come again Self tarry you here flesh tarry you here I and my spirit must goe and worship a poor soul may say many times the spirit is in him but oh 't is glorious when one can say that he is in the Spirit and can attend upon God without distraction Ah my dear Lord divorce my self from mee Then single I will singly worship thee Yet one wish more for better two then one And 't is not good for man to be alone That I may to thee double honor give Let thine in me and me in thy Spirit live 260. An heavenly use of earthly things Use recreations and that which is more necessary very eating and drinking and sleeping not as things which thou likest but as things which thou lackest not out of lust but necessity Look on all the pleasures of this world either as sins or snares and then thou wilt not take too much pleasure in this world Use all Earthly things as thou dost a pair of stairs by which thou goest up to thy chamber but still keepest them under thy feet though thou put forth thine hand yet keep in thine heart and be sure that while the things of earth have thy body the things of Heaven may have thy soul though all things be lawfull to thee yet come not under the power of any Let not thy servants be thy masters thou wert not made to serve thine estate thy body and thy sensual appetite but they were made to serve thee Use thine estate then to serve thy bodily-occasions and thy body to serve thy soul-occafions and thy soul to observe Gods Commandements thus all thou doest will be a glory to thee because all that 's thus done decently and in order is done to the glory of God and thus while others turn their service of God into a bodily exercise thou maiest turn thy bodily exercise into the service of God 261. Improvement Were men but as wise for eternity as they are for time and did they spiritually improve their natural principles for their souls as they do naturally for their bodies and estates what precious Christians might men be for instance 1. Principle To believe good news well grounded Why then is not the Gospel which is the best and best grounded news in the world believed 2. To love what 's lovely and that most which is most lovely Why then is not Christ the beloved of mens souls seeing he is altogether lovely 3. To fear that which will hurt them Why then are not men afraid to sin seeing nothing is so hurtful to them as sin 4. Not to trust a known deceiver why then doe men trust 1. Satan the old Serpent the deceiver of the world 2. The world and its deceitful riches 3. Their own hearts which are deceitful above knowledge Alas 5. To lay up for a rainy day for old age Why then doe not men lay up for eternity treasures of faith and good works against the day of death and judgement 6. He that will give most shall have it Why doe not men give their love and service to God then Doth not he bid most 7. Take warning by others harms Why do not men take heed of sinning from the sufferings and torments which others undergoe for sinning 8. To have something to shew under mens hands because they are mortal Why then will not men have something to shew under Gods hand for their security to salvation seeing not God but they are mortall Ah if men did but walk by their own rules and improve such and many others of their own Principles what an help would it be to godlinesse But alas God may complain of men as of his people of old my people doe not consider men do not consider 262. How bad soever they are who professe the truth yet the truth which they professe is never the worse if they offend and wrong their souls doe not thou be offended and wrong thine owne soul 263. We many alas too many times have to doe with God without confidering what we have or with whom we have to doe 264. Some good things come to the Saints in this life but the rest and the best is reserved for the life to come 265. Recreation Some men are so much at and so much in recreations that they lose the recreation of recreation let it be but short and 't will be the sweeter especially if thou preserve thine heart to be as free to goe off as to come on else 't is to be fear'd that if thou worke at thy play thou wilt play at thy work for he that makes his recreation a businesse will thinke his businesse a toile and if once thy calling be a wearines thou wilt soon be weary of thy calling and then ther 's roome made for the next lust that offer 's it selfe to thy service that thou mai'st offer thy selfe to ' its service 266. The day of Judgement The day of judgement will be to

you found in me What can you lay to my charge Am not I a lovely and a loving God Can any bid more for your love then I Can any doe more for you then I If you can speed better and mend your market go away and leave me if not why will ye spend your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not If you can finde no fault with me why will you commit such a fault as to leave me What cause have you to say We will not come to thee Is it a crime to feed you Is it a crime to clothe you Is it a crime to preserve you Is it a crime to send my Son into the world to save you Is it a crime to beseech and beg you as for an almes that you would be reconciled and be happy forgive me this wrong Be astonished O Heavens at this and be horribly afraid Jer. 2.11 12 13. Why What 's the matter the matter 't is this My people have committed two evils they have forsaken me without a cause and have changed their glory for that which doth not profit Oh sinners let me say to you as Saul to his servants 1 Sam. 22.7 Hear now ye Benjamites will the son of Jesse give every one of you Fields and Vineyards and make you Captains of thousands Oh poor Souls will sin will Satan will the world give you Heaven and Eternal life Why will you be so unreasonable to sin against God and wrong your own souls Oh hear and fear and do no more so wickedly 240. Come and see A sight one sight of Jesus Christ doth more ravish and overcome a soul then all the reports that can be made of him the tongue of men and Angels cannot set him forth so lively and lovely as a poor soul findes him Who can believe honey to be so sweet as he that hath tasted it knows it to be the daughters of Jerusalem wonder at the daughter of Sion when sick of love and say What is thy beloved more then another beloved Why so fond Oh sayes the soul his mouth is most sweet yea he is all desires althogether lovely this is my beloved this Oh this is my beloved When poor creatures come to know him as by himself made known to them in his beauty they then say as John 4.42 we believe not because of thy saying for we our selves have heard him and know assuredly that this is indeed the Christ the Saviour of the world yea they say as the Queen of Sheba said of and unto Solomon 1 Kings 10.5 Oh Lord for indeed a greater then Solomon is here and therefore let me say Oh Lord since I saw thy wisdome and the house that thou hast built and the meat of thy Table and the sitting of thy servants and the attendants of thy Ministers and their apparel c. there is no more spirit in me to say the rest Ah 't was a true report that I heard of thee when I poor I was in mine own self Countrey but I believed not the words till I came oh happy coming and mine eyes oh blest eyes had seen it and behold the half was not no not the half was told me thou exceedest abundantly exceedest the report which I heard Happy thy men happy thy servants which stand continually before thee to hear thy wisdome which is able to make wise unto salvation Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighteth in thee in thee is he well pleased to set thee on the throne of Israel whom he loved for ever Oh Lord saith the soul help me to give but what Silver and Gold Alas what 's an hundred and twenty talents of Gold and of Spices very great store and precious stones though as many as the sand of the Sea No Lord 't is mine heart such as 't is that I would bestow for indeed thou hast ravish'd me with one of thine eyes Take it Lord 't is wholly thine Oh that not a vain thought might lodge in it any more shall it be thus Lord then awake my glory and thou my soul and all that is within me praise the Lord and blesse his holy name What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits and among all for that for that which is the worth of all and more worth then all the rest Herb. I will doe for that Alas my God I know not what But though I cannot fully pay the shot Let me not love thee if I love thee not Let all the glory of my glory be To give all glory and my self to thee This is too little more is due I cann't requite it Lord 't is true 241. When a poor soul considers what God hath done for him in admitting him into communion with himself to eat bread at his Table continually he cries out even weeping for admiration as Mephibosheth did 2 Sam. 9.8 What is thy servant that thou shouldest look on such a dead dog as I am Such a God on such a dog And when he considers from what a low to what an high estate God hath brought him he saith as Jacob Gen. 32.10 I am lesse then the least of all thy mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shewn me for with my staffe I went over this Jordan and now I am become two bands And when Jesus Christ tells a soul that he will make him a King and a Priest to God he humbly saith as Saul to Samuel 1 Sam. 9.21 Am not I a Benjamite ●f the smallest of the Tribes of Israel And my family the least of all the families of the Tribe of Benjamin Ah Lord wherefore speakest thou so to me Yea it sayes as Elisabeth said to Mary the blessed Mother of blessed Jesus when she heard the salutation that the babe the heart of a poor believer leapt within her and she spake yea she spake aloud Blessed yea blessed art thou whence Oh whence is this to me that the Mother of my Lord Oh saith the soul that my God should come to see me even me poor worthlesse me That it fares with them as with them Luke 24.36 -- 42. Jesus stood in the midst and said Peace be unto you and they were terrified and affrighted but he said Why are ye troubled it is I behold my hands and my feet and they believed not for joy and wondred 242. Devils incarnate Persecuters are called Devils Rev. 2.10 and as they do the Devils work they shall have the Devils wages they cast Gods Saints into prison and the Saints God will cast them into prison into an everlasting prison and dungeon of outer darknesse unlesse they repent Christ will say to them at last as Gideon said to Zeba and Zalmunna Judges 8.18 19. what manner of men were they whom you slew at Tabor and they answered as thou art so were they each one resembled the child of a King then will Christ reply as Gideon they were my brethren the sons of my father

conscience marry their own souls to revenge and murther Many cannot in conscience keep communion and maintain fellowship with such as they acknowledge godly because they are not of their opinion and in their way who yet can maintain communion with such as they judge not godly being of their opinion and in their way Is this regular conscience True conscience is universal conscience and therefore Davids Prayer make mine heart sound in thy statutes that I be not ashamed may well be joyned with and expounded by Davids Principle then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect to all thy Commandements Surely if thou be not ashamed of thy partiality thy partiality will bring thee to shame the wisdome that 's from above is not onely without hypocrisie but without partiality 290. Wretch that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death Even he whose body was delivered unto death and overcame death by dying 291. There are two strong arguments whereby to oppose temptations to sin The first and the greatest is this how shall I do this wickednesse and sin against God Who can finde it in his heart to dishonour his God The second is like unto it how shall I doe this wickednesse and wrong mine own soul What shall I be a self murtherer get behinde me Satan though thou wilt have to doe with me yet what have I any more to do with thee 392. 'T is no wonder that the world care's not for Saints for the saint is a man of another world in this were he of the world the world would love ' its owne and 't is no wonder that the saints care not for this world For what should strangers sojourners and pilgrims load themselves with bagge and baggage for no they declare plainly that they seeke a countrey and would not alwayes stay in the world for all the world The world is crucified to me and I unto the world 293. Saying of prayer without praying Many men say the Lords-prayer which doe not pray it they as Austine before Conversion when he prayed for Chastity are afraid lest God should heare them they doe not care that God should say Amen or so be it though they themselvs wil say so they say Our father but if he be their father where is his honour they say which art in heaven but did they believe it how durst they sin as they doe on earth they say hallowed be thy name yet take Gods name in vain they say thy kingdome come yet oppose the comming of his Kingdome they say thy will be done on earth as it is heaven yet will not stand to their words for this is the will of God their sanctification but they will none of that They say give us this day our daily bread yet minde not the feeding of their souls with the bread Christ Jesus which came downe from heaven They say forgive us as we forgive others but alas if God should take them to their word how undon were they whose hearts burne with malice revenge even while they pray or say thus for forgivenesse they say lead us not into temptation yet run into it and tempt the divell himself to tempt them They say deliver us from evill and yet deliver themselves to evill and give up themselves to fulfill the wills of the flesh c. yea it hath bin observed that they sin most against this prayer who stickle most for the saying of this prayer 294. Much from a little Christians should be very shy of the occasions of evill and take heed of the wine when 't is red in the glasse and have an eye to their eye when they looke on a maid Dinah out of a gadding curiosity must needs visit the daughters of the land and while she goeth to see the daughters the son saw her visamque cupit and having seen her he tooke her having taken her he lay with her having layn with her he defiled her the report whereof comming to Jacobs sons they were grieved being grieved they were wroth being wroth they meditate revenge meditating revenge they speak deceitfully speaking deceitfully they deceiv'd having deceived they slew having slain they spoil'd see how great a fire a little matter kindleth what great evils there issue forth from small beginnings Take heed then 295. Riches are called thornes such riches may be touch'd but not rested upon can'st thou set thine heart upon a thorne without pierceing thy selfe through with many sorrowes 128. Selfe oondemned in another We many times condemne others and therein passe sentence against our selves thus Judah said of Tamar bring her forth and let her be burnt not considering that he spake the word against his owne soul thus David to Nathan the man that hath done this thing shall dye not considering that he was the mau Lord wherein I have sinned helpe me to pull out mine owne beame before I judge another for his moate and wherein others have sinned helpe me so to junge their frailties as considering my selfe least I also should be tempted and then I should as much need their pity as they now need mine 297. Fiekle inconstancy Ah Lord how much have we to do with our selves poor wayward peevish froward we are not well either full or fasting either it s too hot or too cold too wet or too dry we would then we would not We are discontented if we have not and not contented with what we have if we have health we would have wealth if wealth we would exchange it for health when in company wee have a minde to be alone when alone we would we were in company Romae Tybur amo ventosus Tybur● Romam The City is too full of company and close the Countrey is too solitary and open aired Quod petit spernit repetit quod nuper omisit Aestuat vitae disconvenit ordine toto Oh! how I like dislike desire disdain Repel Repeal loath and delight again My self I follow and my self I fly Beside my self and in my self am I. My self am not my self another same Vnlike my self and like my self I am Self-fond self-furious and thus wayward elf I cannot live without nor with my self We e'ne put God to it to know what to do with us and if he did not crosse us 't would be a curse to us 't is well for us that 't is all with us if it were not bad it would be worse there 's scarce any thing though we scarce think it so that we are more beholding to God for then for crossing us for woe to us if he let us alone 't is ten to one but hearts desires and lean souls would go together 298. Moderation A moderate minde will be content with a moderate estate and nothing more conduceth to moderation then to know that the time is short and the Lord is at hand he that thinks seriously of these two can neither be carelesse nor covetous let us then be carelesly careful and carefully carelesse let us

of things that are to be done and yet to come as if they were already come and done Many Prophesies of things to be run in the Present Tense as if they were in being Babylon is fallen it shall as certainly fall as if it were fallen by hope we are sav'd we are as safe as if we were saved and are kept safe that we may be saved He that believes not is condemned already for he shall be as surely condemned as if he were already in Hell Them whom he predestinated he called justified and glorified they shall be as surely called justified and glorified as if 't were done 344. All the glory of the world hath a stain and all the beauty a spot there is nothing that is all desires altogether lovely but Christ Jesus He is but time denies to tell you what Sum all perfection up and he is that The praises of all others are with a but and an exception Naaman was a mighty man but a Leper such an one so and so but c. fair but foolish serious but subtle Let us lay out our hearts then not on that which is lovely but in part but on him who is lovely in every part 346. Contentment Whoso in present state himself can rightly bear Hath neither ill that 's past nor future ill to fear The one which is no more ought now no more to fray us Th' other which is not yet as little can dismay us Not he that hath but little but he that covets more Not the contented but covetous man is poore The man who hungers not he needs not bread I think The man that never thirsts hath never need of drink 347. We are so far from meriting by our works of mercy that our works of mercy stand in need of mercy 348. We can alas we can goe from heavenly things to earthly things and carry our hearts with us but how seldome is it that we can goe from earthly things to heavenly and carry our hearts with us 349. Men appoint walls bulwarks for salvation but God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks Salvation is often without walls and bulwarks and walls and bulwarks are often without salvation Salvation is the safer safeguard 350. Saints desire not onely to receive the word into their liking but to be received into its likenes not onely to love it but to live it 351. God knowes the names of all the men in the world and yet he knowes but few men by name 352. To be a servant is sometime put for a sin as to be the servant of sin or servant of men sometime 't is put for a curse as servant of servants shalt thou be said Noah to Cham Sometime 't is put for an honour when a man is called and is the servant of God 353. As there is joy in Heaven at the conversion of a sinner so there is a kinde of joy in Hell when one sins that is converted 354. It s a great piece of wisdom so to order our condition and conversation in this world that we may be able to attend upon God without distraction a distracted man can do but little and that little cannot be well done duties are well done when done with a present and sutable frame of heart but the distracted man hath neither 355. The fear of man makes men to sin but the fear of God keeps men from sin Gen. 3.5 Your eyes shall be open'd and ye shall be as Gods knowing good and evil His eyes indeed were o'pe And then he had the skill To know the difference Between the good and ill Then did he know how good Good was when he had lost it And evil too he knew But ah how dearly cost it 356. Lawful things are often the occasion of unlawful things we should use them then for of them it may be said as the Apostle of the Law the Law is good if a man use it lawfully The sins of the old world are described Luke 17.27 28. not by unlawful or things evil in themselves but becoming such by the abuse They did eat and drink c. which things are necessary to preserve life and yet by these they lost their lives they in these things sinn'd away their lives from the earth and their souls into bell 357. Feasting times are too too often sinning times 't is true it s not sinful to feasi if our feasting be not sinful which that it may not be we should not spend too much care like Martha nor too much cost and time like Dives who fared deliciously every day while we are eating and drinking wee may be dying in remembrance whereof the Egyptians us'd to serve in a deaths head at their feasts and therefore in eating and drinking we need be holy and do that and all to the glory of God 358. That we might not think riches evil God gives them to those who are good yea to the choicest the chiefest the very best of good men to whom he never gives any thing that is in it self evil and lest we should think riches the chiefest good the best good God gives them to them that are evil to whom he never gives the chiefest good 359. Love of pleasure and fear of suffering are the two great things which keep men from minding that which is their chiefe good which if enjoy'd would either free them from suffering or fill them with pleasure in suffering and make them say as Augustine quam suave estistis suavitatibus carere how sweet is it to want the worlds sweets True rest is not attain'd by spending of the yeer In pleasure soft sweet shades down-beds and dainty cheer These leave the soul as empty of content As doth a dream when time of sleep is spent There 's more true joy in godly sorrowes tears Then in sins pleasures he that truly fears The God of Heaven and humbly walks with him He he 's the man that hath an Heaven within 360. It will much aggravate the condemnation of some that they have been so careful of their bodies and so careless of their souls they are so taken up with the things of this world which are but half goods for they reach but half and the worse half of man that ye rise early go to bed late and eat the bread of carefulness for their bodily accommodations when their poor souls may sink or swim that 's left at six and seven the soul is not in all their thoughts One said he had so much businesse to do that he must trust God with his soul he could not look after it Most men are like the woman who when her house was on fire so minded the saving her goods that she forgate her childe and left it burning in the fire at last being minded of it she cries out oh my childe oh my childe So men scrabble here for a little pelf and let their souls be consumed with the fiery heat of cares and at death cry out oh my soul