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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4. GOD will deliver the Church out of trouble.

Thou shalt see peace upon Isra∣el. Ps. 128.6.

Thou shalt see the good of Hie∣rusalem, all the dayes of thy life, verse 5.

The LORD will not cast off his people, nor forsake his inheri∣tance. Ps. 94.14.

Thus saith the LORD, after seventy yeares be accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you and per∣forme my good word towards you, in causing you to returne to this place. For I know the thoughts that I thinke towards you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, to give you an expected end, Jerem. 29.10, 11.

They shall sit every man under his vine, and under his fig-tree, and none shall make them afraid for the mouth of the LORD 〈◊〉〈◊〉

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Hosts hath spoken it. Many na∣tions are gathered against thee, but they know not the thoughts of the LORD: For he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floore, Micah 4.4, 11, 12.

When thus it shall be in the middest of the Land amongst the people: there shall be as the sha∣king of an Olive-tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done, Esay 24.13.

See Esay 61.10. Deut. 4.29, 30. Jeremy 33.6. Jere∣mie 31.12. Esay 27.5, 7, 8, 9.

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