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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2. Promises to those that are imprisoned for the Gospell.
The LORD heareth the poore and despiseth not his prisoners, Psal. 69.33. Hee heareth the groanings of the prisoner, Psal. 102.20. And bringeth out those that are bound with chaines, Psal. 68.6. as he did Peter, Acts 12.10. Feare non•• of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold the Divell shall cast some of you into prison that yee may be tryed, and yee shall have tribula∣tion ten daies: be thou faithfull unto the death,* 1.1 and I will give thee a crowne of life. Here was a bitter∣sweet message, Yee shall be cast into prison:* 1.2This was bitter:
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feare not, this was comfortable; but I will give thee a crowne of life, this was the comfort of com∣forts.