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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.
1. When he casts out the Enemies of a people before them, by lawful War with the Inhabitants which God calls them unto, as in Psal. 44. 2. Thou didst drive out the Heathen before them. But this course of Warring against others, and driving them out without provocation, depends upon special Commission from God; or else it is not imitable.
2. When he gives a foreign People favour in the eyes of any native People to come and sit down with them; either by way of purchase, as Abraham did obtain the field of Machpelah: or else when they give it in courtesy, as Pharaoh did the Land of Goshen unto the Sons of Jacob.
2. When he gives a forreign People favour in the eyes of any native People to come and sit down with them; either by way of purchase, as Abraham did obtain the field of Machpelah: or else when they give it in courtesie, as Pharaoh did the Land of Goshen unto the Sons of Jacob.
3. When he makes a Country, though not altogether void of Inhabitants, yet void in that place where they reside. Where there is a vacant place, there is liberty for the Son of Adam or Noah to come and inhabit, though they neither buy it, nor ask their leaves. Abraham and Isaac, when they *Sojourned amongst the Philistines, they did not buy that Land to feed their Cattle, because they said There is room enough. And so did Jacob pitch his Tent by Shechem, Gen. 34. 21. There was room enough, as Hamor said, Let them sit down amongst us. And in this case,