1. Long life.
The LORD, that hee may stirre up his people to obedience, doth make many promises of
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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"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 17, 2024.
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long life, and many daies; as in the fift Commandement,* 1.1 which the Apostle saith is the first Commandement with Promise,* 1.2 Ephes. 6.2. every child is there commanded to Honour his Fa∣ther and Mother, upon this pro∣mise, that his daies may be long in the land. So Deut. 5.33. Deut. 25.15. & 30.20. In the Proverbes this is very oft repeated, Chap. 3.1, 2. My sonne forget not my law, but let thine heart keepe my commandements; for length of daies and long life and peace shall they add to thee. And 16. and 18. verses of the same Chapter, and Chap. 4. from the 5. verse to 14. Chap. 8.35. Chap. 9.11. Chap. 10.25, 27. Chap. 11.19, 30. & 14.30. This GOD promised to Salomon,* 1.3 1 King. 3.14. and the like is spoken more generally, that the Prince that hateth cove∣tousnesse shall prolong his daies, Prov. 28.16. and also Deut. 17.19, 20.
Long life is promised to the
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observers of the whole law, Deut. 6.2. and other particular bran∣ches of it, Psalm. 34.12, 13, 14.
In all the perills of this life, by sickenesse, warre, famine, theeves, or any wicked enemy whatsoever, we may call to minde some of these promises and so rest quiet thereupon, that none of these nor any thing else shall shorten our daies more then shall turne to our good.
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* 1.1
Exod. 20.1••
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* 1.2
He that fol¦loweth afte•• righteousnes, as a man followeth a trade, shall finde honour and life, true honour and eternall life. Pro. 21.21.
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* 1.3
See Esay 65.20, 22. Psal 91 16. Psal. 1••8.6. Iob 5.26.