Promises. 2. To Knowledge and wise∣dome.
* 1.1It is rewarded 1. with Tem∣porall blessings, GOD will exalt such as know him. I will set him on high, because he hath knowne
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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"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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my name, Psal. 91.14. Length of daies is in her right hand,* 1.2 and in her left hand riches and honour, Prov. 3.14.
2. With spirituall blessings, as grace * 1.3 and peace. 2 Pet. 1.2. Grace and peace be multiplied un∣to you, through the knowledge of GOD.
3. With eternall blessings, Prov. 3.13, 18. Shee is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her, and happy is every one that retaineth her.
2. Faith, which is thus defi∣ned, Faith is a supernaturall gift of GOD in the mind, appre∣hending the saving promise with all the promises that de∣pend upon it, Phil. 1.29. Gal. 3.14.
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* 1.2
Dan. 11.3••. & 11.3. The wise shall inherit glory, Pro. 3.35. See P••o. 4.5. to 10.
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Ioh 17 3. By life eter¦nall is un∣derstood grace, by a metonymie of the effect, quia vitam efficit, it works life. Piscat quia radix & or••go vitae Cyril Quia gustus est vitae aeternae. Brentius. Esay 53.11. M. Perkins on the Creed.
Faith is the gift of God, whereby we know, apprehend and apply the promi∣ses relying upon them Pa••. on the Rom.