2. Good successe and prospe∣rity.
GOD hath promised prospe∣rity
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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"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 1, 2024.
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to his children: Both to their persons, and their purpo∣ses.
They shall prosper that love thee, Psal. 122.6. Prosperity shall be within thy palaces, ver. 7. Good understanding giveth favour, Pro. 13.15. Doe according to all the law which Moses my servant com∣manded thee,* 1.1 that thou maist pro∣sper whithersoever thou goest, Josh. 1.7. Then shalt thou make they way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good successe, ver. 8. They shall spend their daies in prosperi∣ty, and their yeares in pleasures, Job 36.11. And all nations shall call you blessed, for yee shall be a delight some land, Malac. 3.12. The LORD taketh pleasure in the prosperity of his servants, Psal. 35.27. Hee that feareth the LORD is and shall be blessed,* 1.2 every way blessed, Psal. 128.1, 2.3.
GOD will also give good successe to their purposes and in∣deavours.
* 1.3Whatsoever hee doth shall pro∣sper,
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Psal. 1.3. this was verified in Ioseph, Gen. 39.3, 23.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee,* 1.4 and the light shall shine up∣on thy waies, Job 22.28. Com∣mit thy way unto the LORD, trust also in him, and hee shall bring it to passe, Psal. 37.5.
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* 1.1
We have excellent examples of this in Iacob, Gen. 30 17 Io∣seph Gen. 39 2, 5. Heze∣kiah, 2 Chrō ••1 21. Da∣vid, Psal. 23
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* 1.2
See Ier. 33. •• Hosea 14.5.
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* 1.3
Deut. 29.9.
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* 1.4
Deut. 28.8, 12.