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.
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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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As the mountaines are round about Ierusalem, so the LORD is round about his people, Psal. 125.2. There shall no evill befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling, Psal. 91.10. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evill, Psal. 121.7. There shall no evill touch thee, Iob 5.19.
* 1.3GOD hath promised to pro∣tect his children in all their waies, Psal. 91.11. and to preserve them in greatest dangers by Sea or land.* 1.4
Fire and water are two merci∣lesse enemies, yet the fire shall not burne, nor the waters over∣flow them, as GOD hath pro∣mised, Esay 43.2. They must not passe by these, by the fire and by the water, but through the fire and through the water, neither is here water mentioned onely but flouds or rivers of water, nor fire onely but a flame too. Surely in the * 1.5 flouds of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him, Psal. 52.6. An asseveration is added
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to confirme their hearts, and to shew the truth of the pro∣mise.
Though the earth, and the hea∣vens be shaken, yet GOD will be the hope of his people, Ioel 3.16. And they shall be hid in the day of his anger, Zeph. 2.3.
Therefore such who are in Covenant with GOD may looke to be freed from evills and dangers, if it be for their good; and in the valley of the shadow of death may assure themselves of GODS merci∣full omnipotent presence, Psal. 23.4. Psal. 73.26. Psal. 91.15. Esay 43.2.
Notes
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* 1.1
Psal. 32.10, Iob 1.10
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* 1.2
He saith, not (saith Theo••lores) a wall of stone or of brasse, but of fire, that it may both fray a fai••e of and keepe of toe at hand, that it may not onely protect them, but destroy their enemies, Non saxe••, non aheneus, sed igneus, qui & comminus arecat, & eminus terreat.
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* 1.3
Ezra 8.22, 31 Gen. 32.
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* 1.4
God will be with his in the fire, as he was with the three chil∣dren: and in the water, as he was with Moses and Ionah.
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* 1.5
By floods of waters, the Scrip∣tures meta∣phorically expresse great dan∣gers, and violent trou¦bles, Psal. 42.7 Rev. 1••.15 Esay 59.19.