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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3. Promises to those that loose outward things for GODS cause.
In losses for GODS cause:
We should meditate of GODS gracious promises.
1. In the losse of outward things for thy love and service unto GOD, remember that place, 2 Chron. 25.9. The LORD is able to give thee much more then this.
2. In the losse of any earthly blessing for GODS cause, call to mind that promise three times set downe by the Evangelists: Every one that hath forsaken hou∣ses, or brethren, or sisters, or father,* 1.1 or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my names sake, shall re∣ceive an hundred * 1.2 fold, and shall inherit everlasting life, Mat. 19.29. Marke 10.29, 30. Hath it for my
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sake and the Gospels, Luke 18.29, 30. For the kingdome of GODS sake.
3. In the losse of any earthly things in every kind, thinke of that speech, Hab. 3.17, 18. Al∣though the fig-tree shall not blossome, neither shall fruit be in the vines: the labour of the olive shall faile, and the fields shall yeeld no meate, the flocke shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no heard in the stalles: Yet I will reioyce in the LORD: I will ioy in the GOD of my salvation. Consider also Iobs patient blessing of GOD, upon the surprize and concurrence of an universall misery, Iob 1.22.
Notes
* 1.1
An excel∣lent exam∣ple of this we have in Iob 46 10, 1••.