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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.
USE II.
This may teach us in every place where God appoints us to sit down, to acknowledge Him as our Landlord. The Earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof. His are our Countries, our Towns, our Houses, and therefore let us acknowledge Him in them all. The Apostle makes this use of it amongst the Athenians, Act. 17. 26, 27. He hath appointed the times, and places of our habitation, that we might seek and grope after the Lord. There is a threefold use that we are to make of it, as it appeareth there; Let us seek after the Lord, Why? Because if thou comest into an House, thou wilt ask for the owner of it: And so if thou comest into a foreign Land, and there findest an House and Land provided for thee, wilt thou not enquire, Where is the Landlord? where is that God that gave me this House and Land? He is missing and therefore seek after him.
This may teach us in every place where God appoints us to sit down, to acknowledg Him as our Landlord. The Earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof. His are our Countries, our Towns, our Houses, and therefore let us acknowledge Him in them all. The Apostle makes this use of it amongst the Athenians, Act. 17. 26, 27. He hath appointed the times, and places of our habitation, that we might seek and grope after the Lord. There is a threefold use that we are to make of it, as it appeareth there; Let us seek after the Lord, Why? Because if thou comest into an House, thou wilt ask for the owner of it: And so if thou comest into a forreign Land, and there findest an House and Land provided for thee, wilt thou not enquire, Where is the Landlord? where is that God that gave me this House and Land? He is missing and therefore seek after him.