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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.
This placing of people in this or that Country, is from God's Sovereignty over all the Earth, and the Inhabitants thereof: as in Psal. 24. 1. The Earth is the Lords, and the fullness thereof. And in Jer. 10. 7. God is there called, The King of Nations? & in Deut. 10. 14. Therefore it is meet he should provide a place for all Nations to inhabit, and have all the Earth replenished. Only in the Text here is meant some more special Appointment, because God ⟨p. 6⟩tells them it by his own mouth; he doth not so with other people; he doth not tell the Children of Seir, that he hath appointed a place for them. That is, He gives them the Land by Promise. Others take the Land by his Providence, but God's people take the Land by Promise: and therefore the Land of Canaan is called a Land of Promise. Which they discern;
This placing of people in this or that Countrey, is from God's Soveraignty over all the Earth, and the Inhabitants thereof: as in Psal. 24. 1. The Earth is the Lords, and the fulness thereof. And in Jer. 10. 7. God is there called, The King of Nations? & in Deut. 10. 14. Therefore it is meet he should provide a place for all Nations to inhabit, and have all the Earth replenished. Onely in the Text here is meant some more special Appointment, because God ⟨p. 6⟩tells them it by his own mouth; he doth not so with other people; he doth not tell the Children of Seir, that he hath appointed a place for them. That is, He gives them the Land by Promise. Others take the Land by his Providence, but God's people take the Land by Promise: and therefore the Land of Canaan is called a Land of Promise. Which they discern;