A treatise of the divine promises in five bookes : in the first, a generall description of their nature, kinds, excellency, right use, properties, and the persons to whom they belong : in the foure last, a declaration of the covenant it selfe .../ by Edvvard Legh ...

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• PArents, promises to give them children, and to blesse them e∣every way, 449. to 453.
• Promises to comfort them in the want of children, 454.
• Patience, a promise of it, and promises to it, 352, 353.
• Peace, promises of outward and inward peace, 359, 360.
• Promises to peaceable men, or peace-makers, 203. marg.
• Persecution, promises to those

• that are persecuted for the pro∣fession of truth, 221, 222.
• Promises to those that are perse∣cuted for practice of good, and for both together, 222, 223.
• Perseverance, promises of and to it, 330.
• Plenty, see wealth.
• Ponder, what it is, 32.
• Possession of the Divell, see witch∣craft.
• Poverty, promises in regard of it, 181, 182.
• Practice, promises to the practice of the word, 388.
• Promises to those that suffer for the practice of good, 222.
• Praising God, promises of and to it, 397.
• Prayer is a means to apply the pro∣mises, 33, 34.
• Prayer is to be grounded on Gods promises 49. to 60.
• Promises to give the godly hearts to pray, 374.
• Promises to help them to pray, and to heare their prayers, especially in trouble, 374. to 380.
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• Promises to prayer, 381, 382.
• Promises to fervent, secret, private and publick prayer, 382. to 385.
• Preaching, promises to it, 386.
• Presence, promises of Gods graci∣ous presence with the godly, 269.
• Promises, the nature of them. 1. to 8.
• How distinguished from com∣mandements and threatnings, and from purposes, 1, 5.
• The explanation of the word, and the acceptations of it in Scrip∣ture, 1, 2, 3.
• The definition of a Promise in ge∣nerall, 3.
• The divine Promises diversly defi∣ned, 5.
• The division of a Promise in gene∣rall, and of the divine Promises, 3, 4, 11, to 16.
• Promises are the grounds of our hope, and objects of our Faith, 6, 7.
• The order wherin faith layes hold on the Promises, 8, 9.
• The excellency of the Promises, 18, to 26.
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• The right use of the Promises, 26, 27.
• Generall and particular rules di∣recting us how to use them, 5, 28, to 62.
• How spirituall and temporall things are promised, 15, 16, 56. to 59.
• God must be sought to for the per∣formance of his Promises, 60, 61.
• The properties of the Promises, 63 to 9••.
• The manner how God performeth his Promises, 96.
• He delayeth the fullfilling of his Promises, 56, 98, 99, 100.
• The persons to whom the Promi∣ses belong, 104. to 110.
• Prosperity, promises of it to the godly, both to their persons and purposes, 207, 208.
• Providence, promises of Gods spe∣ciall Providence over his people, 270, 27••.