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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When they passe tho∣row the fire he is with them, and through the water, that is drowne them not, &c.

God is with them, Isa. 43.2.

He brings his third through the fire is with them there, and brings them out of it, Zech. 13.9.

They are for their profit, that they may be partakers of his holi∣nesse, Heb. 12.10.

Though they be cha∣stened, yet they are not delivered over unto death, Ps. 118.18.

When they are judg∣ed,

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it is because they should not be condem∣ned with the world, 1 Cor. 11, 29. Job 5.17.

When they receive the sentence of death, it is because they should not trust in themselves, but in God who raiseth the dead, 2 Cor. 1.9.

When they are deli∣vered to death for Je∣sus sake, it is that the life of Jesus might bee manifest in their mortal body, 2 Cor 4.10.

When they are affli∣cted and tossed with tempests, so that they have no Comforter, then God supplies a∣bundance of unthought of mercies, Isa. 54.11.

When for a moment in his wrath hee hides his face from them for a little while; yet with everlasting mercie hee hath compassion on them, Isa. 54.9.

Though he make a full end of all Nations amongst whom he scat∣tereth them, yet he will not make a full end of them, but corrects them in measure, though he leave them not altoge∣ther unpunished, Jer. 30.11.

They are happy un∣der their corrections, Job 5.17.

Thereby they are known to be sons and not bastards, Heb. 12.8

They afterward bring unto them the quiet fruit of righteousnesse unto them, the more they are exercised in them, Heb. 12.11.

God maketh their snare and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole,

He delivers them in sixe troubles, yea in se∣ven there shall no ev touch them, Job 5.18, 19

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When their spirits are overwhelmed within them, then he knoweth their path, Ps. 142.3, 4.

When they sit under darknesse, the Lord is a light unto them, Mica. 7.8. Cant. 2.6.

Though weeping be with them at night, yet joy cometh in the mor∣ning, Ps 30.5.

They are not temp∣ted above that which they are able to beare, but with the temptati∣on, there is stil an issue, 1 Cor. 10.19.

Though their out∣ward man perish, yet their inward man is re∣newed daily, 2 Cor. 4.16.

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