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An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustratedAn analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated
An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applied by their uses for a further progress in holiness / by ... William Ames ...An analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applyed by their uses for a further progresse in holinesse / by ... William Ames ...
London: printed by E.G. for John Rothwell, 1641London: printed by E.G. for Iohn Rothwell, 1641
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3. Because it stands upon Gods glory to save those that fly unto him, as he promised them in his covenant.
3. Because it stands upon Gods glory to save those that flye unto him, as he promised them in his covenant.
Use. This may serve to comfort us, in the time of public calamities, wherein God revengeth the wickedness of men.
Vse. This may serve to comfort us, in the time of publick calamities, wherein God revengeth the wickednesse of men.
Doct. 5. God doth often times preserve those that are his, partly by the same means whereby he destroyeth others.
Doct. 5. God doth often times preserve those that are his, partly by the same meanes wherby he destroyeth others.
For it is said that the Ark saved Noah and those seven souls in the waters and by the waters. The same water that drowned others, by lifting up the Ark on high, was the means of their preservation. So Jeremiah was delivered by the Babylonians, by whom the Jews were oppressed.