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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. We may remove for the gaining of Knowledge. Our Saviour commends it in the Queen of the South, that she came from the utmost parts of the Earth, to hear the wisdom of Solomon, Mat. 12. 42. And surely, ⟨p. 8⟩with him she might have continued for the same end, if her personal Calling had not recalled her home.
1. We may remove for the gaining of Knowledg. Our Saviour commends it in the Queen of the South, that she came from the utmost parts of the Earth, to hear the wisdom of Solomon, Mat. 12. 42. And surely, ⟨p. 8⟩with him she might have continued for the same end, if her personal Calling had not recalled her home.
2. Some remove and travail for Merchandise, and Gainsake; Daily Bread may be sought from far, Prov. 31. 14. Yea, our Saviour approveth travail for Merchants, Mat. 13. 45, 46. when he compareth a Christian to a Merchant-man seeking Pearls: For he never fetcheth a comparison from any unlawful thing, to illustrate a thing lawful. The comparison from the unjust Steward, and from the Thief in the night, is not taken from the injustice of the one, or the theft of the other; but from the wisdom of the one, and the suddenness of the other; which in themselves are not unlawful.
2. Some remove and travail for Merchandize, and Gainsake; Daily Bread may be sought from far,