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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. 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,
3. To Plant a Colony, that is a Company that agree together to remove out of their own Countrey, 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,
4. God alloweth a man to remove, When he may employ his Talents and Gifts better elsewhere; especially when where he is, he is not bound by any special engagement. Thus God sent Joseph before to preserve the Church: Joseph's Wisdom and Spirit was not fit for a Shepherd, but for a Counsellor of State, and therefore God sent him into Egypt. To whom much is given, of him God will require ⟨p. 9⟩the more? Luk. 12. 48.
4. God alloweth a man to remove, When he may imploy his Talents and Gifts better elsewhere; especially when where he is, he is not bound by any special engagement. Thus God sent Joseph before to preserve the Church: Joseph's Wisdom and Spirit was not fit for a Shepherd, but for a Counsellor of State, and therefore God sent him into Egypt. To whom much is given, of him God will require