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 ...
About this Item
Title
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.
Rights/Permissions
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms
God -- Promises.
Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
Man (Theology)
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47631.0001.001
Cite this Item
"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.
〈◊〉〈◊〉••.13 Ps. 11••.1. Ps. 9.8. Ps. ••11▪ 12, 13. Ps. 110.1. Ps. 1.1. Ps. 128.1, 4.
They whom the world ac∣count above all men most mise∣rable, are truly and only happy, as our Saviour prooves, Matth. 5. Blessed are the poore in spirit, &c. from 3. ver. to 12. we shall ne∣ver be truly happy till wee be sincerely holy, nor fully hap∣py till wee bee perfectly ho∣ly.* 1.2
2. The godly shall be a bles¦sing to the place where they live.
I will blesse thee, and the••
descriptionPage 413
shalt be a blessing, Genesis 12.2.
And I will make them a bles∣sing, Ezek. 34.••6. I••rael shall be a blessing in the midst of the land, Esay 19.24.
Notes
* 1.1
••r••mises in gen••rall to t••e w••ys of godlinesse.