The vvay to heaven discovered: and, the stumbling-blocks (cast therein by the world, flesh, and devill) removed. Or, The ready way to true happines

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The vvay to heaven discovered: and, the stumbling-blocks (cast therein by the world, flesh, and devill) removed. Or, The ready way to true happines
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Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.
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[London] :: Printed for William Ballard of Bristol, and are sold by J. Grismond in Ivie-lane, London,
1653.
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Happiness -- Religious aspects
Christian life
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"The vvay to heaven discovered: and, the stumbling-blocks (cast therein by the world, flesh, and devill) removed. Or, The ready way to true happines." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91367.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.

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3. Quaere is, Whether there be not many promises made to the Gentiles; and if so, then what those promises were and are.

Answ. I suppose that all, or at least ma∣ny of the spirituall promises made to the Jewes do belong, and may be apply∣ed to the Gentiles, but there are pro∣mises that doe more peculiarly belong to them. Hos. 1. 10. And it shall come to passe, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there shall it be said unto them, Ye are the sonnes of the li∣ving

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God: Hos. 2. 23. And I will have mercy upon her that did not obtain mercy, and I will say to them which are not my people, Ye are my people: and they shall say, Thou art our God, see Act. 15. 17 & Mal. 1 11. & Isai. 2. 3, 4. & 11. 10. & 56. 8. & Jer. 16. 19. & Ezek 17. 23. Luk. 13. 29. & Mat. 12. 21. & 21. 23. & Rom 15. 12.

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