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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CHAP. VI. GOD hath promised not onely to give these outward things, but to blesse them to his children.
HE will make that pro∣sperous unto the Righ∣teous which they pos∣sesse, be it little or much.
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattell, the in∣crease of thy kine and the flockes of thy sheepe. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store, Deut. 28.4, 5. Deut. 7.13, 14.
The LORD also will blesse thy fruit of thy wombe and the fruit of thy land, thy corne, and thy wine and thine oyle, the increase of thy kine, the flockes of thy sheepe, there shall be neither male or female barre•• among them, or among your cattell.
Hee shall not onely enjoy the fruit of his labours, but also
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be blessed in his fruit, Psal. 128.1, 2.
The godly are in a better state for these outward things then the wicked, in two respects:
1. They have a spirituall right to them which the wicked have not, they have these outward things onely by a generall pro∣vidence during GODS plea∣sure, but the faithfull have them as rewards of their righteous∣nesse, as testimonies of GODS love and care of them.
2. They enjoy them as they are,* 1.1 a little gives them more content then plenty others. Better is a little righteous∣nesse, then great revenues without right, Prov. 16.8. more com∣fortable in respect of inward peace, the present use of this life and continuance. Better is a little with the feare of the LORD, then great treasure and trouble therewith, Prov. 15.16, 17. The blessing of the LORD maketh rich, and hee
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addeth no sorrow with it, Prov. 10.22. GOD giveth his beloved sleepe, Psal. 127.2. The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soule, Pro. 13.25.
See Esay 65.13. Eccles. 5.19. & 3.12, 13. Prov. 17.1
Notes
* 1.1
A little that a righteous man hath, is better than the riches of many wicked Psal. 37.16.