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Now all the promises of God unto his people, are such as concern the body, or the body and the soul: those that concern the body are with this limitation, that is, so far as concerns Gods glory, and the ⟨p. 5⟩good of our souls: but for the body and soul, consider that place. For the Lord is a sun and Shield, the Lord will give grace and ¹glory, and no good will he withhold from them that live uprightly.

Now all the promises of God unto his people, are such as concerne the body, or the body and the soule: those that concerne the body are with this limitation, that is, so farre as concernes Gods glory, and the ⟨p. 5⟩good of our soules: but for the body and soule, consider that place. For the Lord is a sunne and Shield, the Lord will give grace and ¹glory, and no good will he withhold from them that live uprightly.

1. 1Psal. 84. 11.

I Come to the reasons why God hath thus made many promises unto his people, and they are three.

The first reason is this, that his people might have a fit object for their faith to lay hold upon, for if you look upon all the creatures in the world, you shall find in all of them jointly, or any of them apart, a fit object for faith to work upon, or be satisfied in: it is with faith as with a poor woman that hath a child, and hath nothing in the world to give it, she takes the child at her back and goeth from door to door, and what she getteth she giveth to the child, so faith takes the soul, and carrieth it to promise after promise, and what ever she finds there she gives it to the soul.