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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.
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, 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.
3. To Plant a Colony, that is a Company that agree together to remove out of their own Country, and settle a City or Common-wealth elsewhere. Of such a Colony we read in Acts 16. 12. which God blessed and prospered exceedingly, and made it a glorious Church. Nature teacheth Bees to do so. When as the hive is too full, they seek abroad for new Dwellings: So when the hive of the Common-wealth is so full, that Tradesmen cannot live one by another, but eat up one another, in this case it is lawful to remove,