Promises
To fervent prayer.
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 17, 2024.
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Then yee shall call upon me, and ye shall goe and pray unto me,* 1.1 and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seeke me and find me,* 1.2 when ye shall search for me with all your heart, that is, truly and fervent∣ly, saith Greenham.
The effectuall prayer of a righ∣teous man availeth much (both for the helping of the body,* 1.3 and healing of the soule) but with this proviso, if it be fervent: o∣pen thy mouth wide, that is,* 1.4 ear∣nestly, confidently, call upon me, and I will fill it, that is, I will satisfie thy desire to the full.
Aske and it shall be given you; seeke, and yee shall find; knocke and it shall be opened unto you, Matth. 7.7. Aske, seeke, knocke. It is not a simple repetition of the same thing, but a gradati∣on. It shews instantissimam ne∣••essitatem, saith Austen. Aske ••s a begger, seeke as with a can∣dle, knocke as one that hath pow∣••r with importunity. * 1.5 One
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thus descants upon the place; Aske with the mouth,* 1.6 seek with the heart, knock with the hand: and it shall be given you, that is, for Temporall things; and yee shall find, that is, for Spirituall things; and it shall be opened unto you, that is, for Eternall things.
Notes
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* 1.1
Ier. 29 12, ••3
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* 1.2
Luke 8.7, 8
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* 1.3
Iam 5.16.
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* 1.4
Psal. 81.10.
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* 1.5
D. Playfer••
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* 1.6
Non dicitur quid dabitur, saith Austen Christ na∣meth not what shall be givē to you, to let us know that that gift, is a thing suprae omne nomen, above all that can bee named Matth 6.6.