A69149:92
Gods promise to his plantation· as it was delivered in a sermon
Gods promise to his plantation· as it was delivered in a sermon, by John Cotton, B.D. and preacher of Gods word in Boston.Gods promise to his plantation· as it was delivered in a sermon, by Iohn Cotton, B.D. and preacher of Gods word in Boston.
London: printed by William Jones of John Bellamy, 1630London: printed by William Iones of Iohn Bellamy, 1630
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Fourthly, go forth, every man that goeth, §4with a public spirit, looking not on your own things only, but also on the things of others: Phil. 2.4. This care of universal helpfulness was the prosperity of the first Plantation of the Primitive Church: Acts 4.32.
Fourthly, goe forth, every man that goeth, §4with a publicke spirit, looking not on your owne things onely, but also on the things of others: Phil. 2.4. This care of universall helpfulnesse was the prosperity of the first Plantation of the Primitive Church: Acts 4.32.
Fifthly, §5have a tender care that you look well to the plants that spring from you, that is, to your children, that they do not degenerate as the Israelites did; after which they were vexed with afflictions on every hand. How came this to pass? Jer. 2.21. I planted them a noble Vine; holy, a right seed, how then art thou degenerate into a strange Vine before me? Your Ancestors were of a noble divine spirit, but if they suffer their children to degenerate, to take loose courses, then God will surely pluck you up: Otherwise if men have a care to propagate the Ordinances and Religion to their children after them, God will plant them, and not root them up. For want of this, the seed of the repenting Ninevites was rooted out.
Fifthly, §5