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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: III:
When you have found God making way and room for you, and carrying you by his providence unto any place, Learn to walk thankfully before him, defraud him not of his Rent, but offer your selves unto his Service: Serve that God, and teach your Children to serve Him that hath appointed you and them the place of your Habitation.
OBSERVATION II.
A People of God's Plantation shall enjoy their own place with Safety and Peace.
This is manifest in the Text: I will plant them, and what follows from thence? They shall dwell in their own place: But how? Peaceably, They shall not be moved any more. Then they shall dwell safely, then they shall live in peace. The like Promise you read of in Psal. 89. 21, 22. The Enemy shall not exact upon them any more. And in