Promises for succour in Fa∣mine
* 1.1Particular promises for helpe in Famine, and deliverance from it.
In Famine he shall redeeme thee
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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- 1641.
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- 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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from death, Iob 5.20. The LORD will not suffer the soule of the righ∣teous to famish, Prov. 10.3. Behold the eye of the LORD is upon them that feare him, upon them that hope in his mercy, to keepe them alive in famine, Psal. 33.19. In the daies of famine they shall be satisfied, Psal. 37.19. If I shut up Heaven (saith the LORD) th••t there be no raine, or if I command the Locusts to devoure the land; if my people shall humble themselves and pray, and seeke my face, and turne from their wicked waies, then will I heare from heaven and will for∣give their sinne, and heale their land. 2 Chron. 7.13, 14. In that day I will heare saith the LORD, I will heare the Heavens, and they shall heare the Earth, and the earth shall heare the corne, and the wine, and the oyle, and they shall heare Iezreel, Hosea 2.21, 22. When the poore and needy seeke water and there is none,* 1.2 and their tongue faileth for thirst; I the LORD will heare them▪ I the GOD of Israel will
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not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountaines in the midst of the valleys, I will make the wildernesse a poole of water, and the drie land springs of water.
See Ioel 2.18, 19. Zach. 8.11, 12. & 10.1. Mal. 3.10.
GODS children in time of scarcity should live by faith, Mat. 4.4. feede on the promise, and de∣pend on GODS allowance: when our owne provision failes us, then not to distrust the provision of GOD, is a noble tryall of faith.
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At destructi∣on and fa∣mine thou shalt laugh, Iob. 5 22. God will not leave his in fa∣mine, but will then relieve them, as he did the widdow of Zar••ph••ah.
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Esay 41.17, 18.