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The fort-royal of the Scriptures, or, The vade-mecum concordance presenting unto the world an hundred heads of Scripture, most of them common-placed for publique use : wherein all (especially the weaker sort of Christians) may suddenly command most of all the rarities in the book of God / by an admirer of the word.

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The fort-royal of the Scriptures, or, The vade-mecum concordance presenting unto the world an hundred heads of Scripture, most of them common-placed for publique use : wherein all (especially the weaker sort of Christians) may suddenly command most of all the rarities in the book of God / by an admirer of the word.
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Hart, John, D.D.
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Edinburgh :: Printed by the Heires of George Anderson for Andrew Wilson,
1649.
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"The fort-royal of the Scriptures, or, The vade-mecum concordance presenting unto the world an hundred heads of Scripture, most of them common-placed for publique use : wherein all (especially the weaker sort of Christians) may suddenly command most of all the rarities in the book of God / by an admirer of the word." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A45722.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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Trials.

Strange and great crosses come upon us to humble us, Levit. 26.21.

It makes us to think our selves lesse then the least of all Gods mer∣cies, Gen. 32.10.

It proceeds unto honour, Pro. 18.12.

It makes us to see our selves most vile, Job 42.1, 2.

It makes us to think all others better then our selves, Phil. 2.3.

It makes us to think our selves the worst of all, 1 Tim. 1.15.

It values and seeks that honour which comes from God, only, John 5.44.

Pride of heart keeps us from being humble, John 5.44.

It mindes not high things but condiscends to men of low degree. Rom. 12.16.

It makes us equal un∣to those of the lower

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sort, 1 Cor. 6.

The sinnes of others are matter of humbling us, 2 Cor. 12.21.

It makes us not to seek our own things, but the things of others also, Phil. 2.4.

It makes us to be con∣tented in every estate, to be abased and to a∣bound, Phil. 4.11, 12.

By humbling our selves, in the sight of God, he lifts us up, Lam. 4.10.

We must be clothed therewith, because God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace unto such, 1 Pet. 5.5.

Humbling our selves under Gods mighty hand, he wil raise us up in due time, 1 Pet. 5.6.

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