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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5. Doubts and Feares of losing the love of GOD. Comforts against doubts and feares of loosing the love of GOD.

In the affliction of thy minde and losse of the feeling of GODS favour,* 1.1 acquaint thy selfe with those promises, Iohn 13.1. Having loved his owne which were in the world, he loved them unto the end, and without end. The* 1.2 gifts and calling of GOD

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are without repentance: that is, such gifts as accompany an effectuall calling, are such as GOD never repenteth of, or ta∣keth away, I will not forsake my people, 1 King. 6.13. Heb. 13.5. Behold GOD will not cast away a perfect man, Iob 8.20. The love of GOD unto his childe, in re∣spect of tendernesse, is infinitely dearer then that of a most loving mother to her little one, Esay 49.15. stronger then the stony mountaines and rockes of flint, Esay 54.10. as constant as the waters of Noah, ver. 9. as the ordinances of Heaven. Ier. 33.20 and ver. 25. nay as sure as GOD himselfe, Psal. 89.33, 34, 35.

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