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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.
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 Psal. 92: 13. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the Courts of our God. God's Plantation is a flourishing Plantation, Amos. 9. 15.
Quest. What is it for God to plant a People?
Answ. 1. It is a Metaphor taken from young Imps: I ⟨p. 14⟩will make them to take root there; and that is, where they & their soil agree well together, when they are well and sufficiently provided for, as a Plant sucks nourishment from the soil that fitteth it.