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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.
REASON.
This is taken from the kind Acceptance of David's purpose to build God an House. Because He saw it was done in the honesty of his heart, therefore He promiseth to give his people a place wherein they should abide for ever, as in a house of rest.
Secondly, It is taken from the Office God takes upon him, when He is our Planter; He becomes our Husbandman: and if He plant us, who shall pluck us up? Isai. 27. 1, 2. Job 34. 29. When he giveth quiet, who can make trouble? If God be the Gardiner, who shall pluck up what He sets down? Every Plantation that He hath not Planted shall be plucked up, and what He hath Planted shall surely be established.
Thirdly, From the nature of the blessing he confers upon us: When he promiseth to plant a People, their days shall be as the days of a Tree, Isai. 65. 22. As the Oak is said to be an hundred years in growing, and an hundred years in full strength, and an hundred years in decaying.