Promises. To bounty to GODS Mini∣stere.
He that receiveth you, receiveth me: He that receiveth a Prophet
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 ...
- Author
- Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.
- Publication
- 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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Page 407
in the name of a Prophet, shall re∣ceive a Prophets reward, Matth. 10.40, 41. Some understand that thus, they shall be partakers of the same reward, which is laid up for the Prophets. Calvin takes it for a reward which is fit for the worthinesse of the per∣son, upon whom the liberality shall be bestowed.
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barnes be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine, Prov. 3.9, 10.* 1.1 And the Le∣vite because he hath no part nor inher••tance with thee,* 1.2 shall come and shall eate, and be satisfied, that the LORD thy GOD may blesse thee in all the worke of thine hand which thou doest, Deut. 14.29.
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* 1.1
See Mal. 3.10 1••.
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* 1.2
A promise to paying of tithes.