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 9, 2024.
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1. Promises of GODS Love.
* 1.1ANd he will love thee, and blesse thee, &c. Deut. 7.13. Hee crowneth his people with loving kind∣nesse, and tender mercies, Psal. 103.4.
There are three properties of GODS Love.
1. It is a free Love; he stands not upon desert, Hosea 14.4. Ex∣od. 33.19. 1 Ioh. 4.10, 19. The LORD did not set his Love upon you, nor choose you, because yee wore more in number then any other people, but because the LORD loved you. Lo he loved you, be∣cause he loved you,* 1.2to shew the freedome and independancy of his love unto them.
2. It is an infinite & transcendent Love, Eph. 2.4.7, 18, 19. GOD* 1.3 so loved the world, &c. Iohn 3.16. that is, so infinitely, so transcendent∣ly, so incomprehensibly, 1 Ioh. 3.1.
Love, I have loved thee with an everlasting love, Jer. 31.3. Behold I will betroth thee unto mee for ever, Hosea 2.19. With everla∣sting kindnesse will I have mercy on thee, Esay 54.8.
Notes
* 1.1
For spiritu∣all blessings in Generall, Ephes. 13. he hath bles∣sed us with all spirituall blessings, 2 Pet. 1.4. He hath gi∣ven us all thngs per∣taining to life and godlinesse.