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The mystical match between Christ and his churchThe mysticall match between Christ and his church
The mystical match between Christ and his church by the late learned and reverend divine, John Preston ... The leading sermon to that treatise of his called The churches marriage.The mysticall match between Christ and his church by the late learned and reverend divine, John Preston ... The leading sermon to that treatise of his called The churches marriage.
London: printed for Francis Eaglesfield, 1648
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
When the Lord would have David go out of ⟨p. 124⟩Keilah, saith David, will the Lords of Ketlah deliver me up? David knew not their hearts, nor no man knew, but the Lord only knew they would deliver him up into the hands of Saul, 1 Sam. 23. 11. 12. and he told him, they would do it. And again, 1he asked whether Saul would come down to Keilah, it was futurum contingens, a contingent thing, and no man could tell whether he would or not; but the Lord told, that he would come down to destroy Keilah; if any other had known these two things, he might have counselled David. Now our guidance then in such things dependeth upon the knowledge of those two things, which yet are not in our power to know, but only in the power of God, and therefore we are not able to guide our selves. It is said, Col. 2. 3. That in him are hid all the treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge; And they are so in Him, that they are not out of Him.
When the Lord would have David goe out of ⟨p. 124⟩Keilah, saith David, will the Lords of Ketlah deliver me up? David knew not their hearts, nor no man knew, but the Lord onely knew they would deliver him up into the hands of Saul, 1 Sam. 23. 11. 12. and he told him, they would doe it. And againe, 1he asked whether Saul would come downe to Keilah, it was futurum contingens, a contingent thing, and no man could tell whether he would or not; but the Lord told, that hee would come downe to destroy Keilah; if any other had knowne these two things, he might have counsell'd David. Now our guidance then in such things dependeth upon the knowledge of those two things, which yet are not in our power to know, but onely in the power of God, and therefore wee are not able to guide our selves. It is said,