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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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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Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.
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London :: Printed by George Miller, and are to be sold by Thomas Underhill ...,
1641.
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God -- Promises.
Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
Man (Theology)
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47631.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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1. Generall Promises are particularly, and Particu∣lars generally appliable.
The LORD in assenting to Salomons prayer,* 1.1 made a gene∣rall promise to any man, or to all the people, that what prayer or supplication soever should be made towards his Temple, he would heare in heaven and forgive,* 1.2 &c. Iehosaphat being after in distresse, applied this generall to his owne present condition; when the chil∣dren of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Scir came to turne Israel out of their possessions. So Da∣vid, Psal. 119 49. and the woman of Canaan, Matth. 15.22. ap∣plied the generall promises to themselves.
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The LORD made a particu∣lar promise unto Iosh••a,* 1.3 that he would be with him to blesse his enterprizes against the Ca∣nanites, and to carry him through all the difficulties and hazards of that holy warre; and S. Paul applies the promise to all the faithfull,* 1.4 in any straights or distresses of life, as the LORD himselfe had before applied it from Moses to Ioshua, Let your conversation be without covetous∣nesse,— for as GOD was with Ioshua, so will he be with thee, Hee will not faile thee nor for∣sake thee. CHRIST made a particular promise unto Peter, I have prayed for thee that thy faith faile not.* 1.5 And the same in effect he applies to all his,* 1.6I pray that thou wouldst keepe them from the evill.
Thus may the children of GOD doe, if they finde any promise made to one godly man, and no speciall reason expressed why it should be peculiar to him,
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they may take it as a promise made to them. The ground of this is taken from GODS un∣changeable and impartiall man∣ner of dealing: the same GOD that he is to one faithfull man, the same he is to all: they all are under the same Covenant, and have interest in the same pro∣mises.