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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.
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.
Thirdly, From the nature of the blessing he confers upon us: When he promiseth to plant a People, their dayes shall be as the dayes 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.
Quest. But it may be demanded, How was this promise fulfilled by the people, seeing after this time they met with many Persecutions; at home and abroad: many sons of wickedness afflicted them. Jeroboam was a son of wickedness, and so was Ahab, and A•oz, and divers others?