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A47631	A treatise of the divine promises in five bookes : in the first, a generall description of their nature, kinds, excellency, right use, properties, and the persons to whom they belong : in the foure last, a declaration of the covenant it selfe .../ by Edvvard Legh ...	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1641 (1641)	Wing L1014; ESTC R19654	173,632	533

accomplishment 1 King 8.37.40 2 Chron. 20.8 10. Iosh. 1.5 6. Heb. 13.5 Luk. 2● 32 Iohn 17.15 See ●1 20. verses Psal. 84.11 Master Reynolds in his Treatise of the Sinfullnesse of Sin Mat 6.33 Esay 55.5 1 Thess. 4.7 Ier. 31.33 1 Thess. 5 23 Ier. 32.40 Hos 11.3 Hos. 14.4 Ezek. 34.16 Gods Promises signifie what he will do his precepts what we must do that this promises may be to us fulfilled Hee promiseth to hi● Church to forgive thei● sinnes withall give● us command to repent beleeve that our sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come Acts 3.19 His promise is to save his children their duty yet to save the●selves Acts ● 40 * Experiments God hath given us in others Iam. 5.11 2 Experience ●f his mercy in our selves See Pal. 4.1 ●sal 2 7.5 77.5.11 1.3 5. Psa. 1●9 52 That faith may be preserved wee must often meditate upon the sweetnesse Ps. 1●9 103. 139.11 constancie Rev. 1.5 2 Cor. 1.20 perpetulty of the most precious and free promises which are th● grounds of faith Hos. 14.5 Ezek. 36.22 as a Revered Divine● observes in his Exposition of his Catechisme The Philosopher saith that experience is multiplex memoria a multiplied memory because of the memory of the same thing often done ariseth experience Psal. 139.14 The ground for what and the rule how wee must pray All our prayers are to be grounded on Gods promises David often chargeth God with his promise Psal. 119. Q●●cken me according to thy word v. 2● that is thy promise in thy word So 10● 149 154. Rem●mber thy Wor● 〈…〉 thy Wo●d 38. still he ha●ps upon this st●ing 28● 1. ●5 75. * Neh. 1.8 1● In the wa●t of other Rhetorick Oratory let Christians in their pray●●●●rge this with repetition Lord ●hou hast ●romised thou hast promised 〈…〉 2 Chron. ●9 ●● 15 17. 1 King ●2 The thing asked must first be warranted under some precept or promise in generall though not expresly M. Harris Obiect How wee may pray in faith when we want a particular promise that the thing we aske shall be granted Sol. Gods promises of things temporall and to heare us for others are but indefini●e not universall The faith therefore requited toward them is but an indefinite act of recumbency and submissi●n not of assurance M. Go●hei● in his returne of Prayers Yet God often grants prayers made for o●her● since promises are made to such prayers as that they shal be healed in their bodies Iam 5 15. healed of their lust● v. 16. converted to li●e 1 Ioh 5 16. Id. ib. Eo modo cuinia sunt petenda quo modo sunt promissa Verse 3● We may pray agains● temptations as against sicknesse and poverty 〈◊〉 simply bu● with submission to Gods will only we must pray ab●olu●ely to be 〈◊〉 from 〈…〉 of temptation for those latter words in the I. P doe restraine or correct the former D. Am. That wee should have grace is absolutely necessary and therefore we may pray absolutely for it We may not absolutely pray for limited set mea●ure● of grace but in what measure God shall thinke good D. Sclater upon 2. to the Thess. pag. 18.210 233. 2 Chro. 32 31 D. S●lat on 1. of Rom. We must referre the time manner and measure of granting our petitions to the Lord. D. Preston on the Sacrament D. G●uge on the Lords Prayer See page 10 See Schudder key of heaven last Doct. Mat. 26.39 D. Sclat on 2.10 Thess pages before quoted There is no temporall thing of this life doth Cad●re in promiss●on Dei but onely so fa●re forth as it sha●l helpe and further the next life This life is but via ad citam and whatsoever God promise● 〈◊〉 in the wa● is but to 〈◊〉 us ●n the end o●●he 〈◊〉 a 〈…〉 guide to godlinesse b B Babington on L.P. c A Reverend Divine on the L.P. d A Worthy Writer in his Catechisme Smith grounds of religion Tylen Syntag Barker on the 5. Commandement * Illa sola sunt absolutē petenda quae necessaria sunt ad Dei gloriam n●stram salutem caetera vero cum tacita subiectione ad Dei sapientissimā dispositionē D Ames medul To l. 2. c. 9. Therefore in the Lords Prayer there are 5. Petitions for Spirituall and but one for Temporall things God must be sought to for the performāce of his promises Ezek. 36 ●7 Ier. 29 10 13 God doth not give his promises to make us idle but to exercise our faith in importuning him for performance Gods promises then are as directions in not as dispensations from the devotion we owe unto God Bish. Lake ●hen God promised thing● in par●icular yet ●●ll ●hey prayed and prayed earnestl● as E●●th when God promise● that it should raine 1 Ki●g 18.41 42. and David when God promised to make him an house 2 Sam. 7.11 It is called a Covenant of g●ace and the promise of grace The very Greek and Latine w●rds for promise s● was befor● noted signifie a free and willing promise so the word is taken ●it 1. ● Deut. 7.7 8. Ezek. 16.6.8 a Christ is a free gift Esay 96. and how shall he not with him freely give us all thing Rom. 8 31. God commendeth his love to us in that when we were yet sinners and enemies also Christ died for us Rom 5 8.10 He loved us non existentes imo resistentes saith Bernard b The promises are free yet conditionall Conditionall is not opposed to Free but to Absolute 2 Thess. 3.3 4 2 Thess. 3.11.12 The freenes of Gods promises revives our hope * It is good for a man saith Greenham to watch himselfe whether in hearing the promises of God he hath a cold feare comming on him for his unworthines which if he have that man may hope well of himselfe Mat. 11.28 The wicked came Gods peace into wantonnes Iude 4. 2 Cor. 7 1. Heb. 4 1. Esay 55.7 The Covenant is actually made with beleevers onely Act 13.48 Gal. 3. ● but it is offered unto all by the Gospel Mat. 28 1● Acts 17.30 Col 1.23 Tit. ● 11 Ioh. 6 45 7 Ephes. 1.17 〈…〉 in Comment ad Rome 3. v. 2. Acts 2.39 The largenesse of the Promise serveth not onely to assure all beleevers of salvation but to encourage all that heare of Christ to beleeve in him as the brazen Serpent had a promise annexed to it Numb 21.8 9. Ioh. 3.14 15 ●6 that all that look●d toward it when they were stung with a Serpent should be he healed that promise served not onely to assure the lookers of recovery but also to encourage and warrant every one to looke to the Serpent The Sacraments particularize the generality of the promise * Perkins reformed Cath●like Abbot against Bish. * D. Prideaux Lect 7 de salutis certitudine D Sclater on Rom 18. The Papish say it is arrogancy and presumption by a speciall faith to apply the promises to our selves