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God's promise to his plantations
God's promise to his plantations; [Three lines from Samuel] / As it was delivered in a sermon by John Cotton, B.D. and preacher of God's word in Boston. ; [Seven lines from Psalms]
Boston: printed by William Jones for John Bellamy, 1686
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.
3. Be not unmindful of our Jerusalem at home; whither you leave us, or stay at home with us. Oh pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they shall prosper that love her, Psal. 122. 6. They shall all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion, Psal. 129. 5. As God continueth his presence with us (blessed be his Name) so be ye present in spirit with us, though absent in body: Forget not the womb that bare you, and the breast that gave you suck. Even Ducklings hatched under a Hen; though they take the water, yet will still have recourse to the wing that hatched them; how much more should Chickens of the same feather and yolk? In the amity and unity of Brethren, the Lord hath not only promised, but commanded a Blessing, even Life for ever more, Psal. 133. 1, 2.
3. Be not unmindful of our Jerusalem at home; whither you leave us, or stay at home with us. Oh pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they shall prosper that love her, Psal. 122. 6. They shall all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion, Psal. 129. 5. As God continueth his presence with us (blessed be his Name) so be ye present in spirit with us, though absent in body: Forget not the womb that bare you, and the breast that gave you suck. Even Ducklings hatched under a Hen; though they take the water, yet will still have recourse to the wing that hatched them; how much more should Chickens of the same feather and yolk? In the amity and unity of Brethren, the Lord hath not only promised, but commanded a Blessing, even Life for ever more, Psal. 133. 1, 2.
4. Go forth, every man that goeth, with a public spirit, looking not on your own things only, but also on the things of others: