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A69149 Gods promise to his plantation· as it was delivered in a sermon, by Iohn Cotton, B.D. and preacher of Gods word in Boston. Cotton, John, 1584-1652. 1630 (1630) STC 5854; ESTC S105087 11,609 28

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First Answ when God espies or discovers a land for a people as in Ezek. 20.6 he brought them into a land that he had espied for them And that is when either he gives them to discover it themselves or heare of it discovered by others and fitting them Secondly after he hath espied it when he carrieth them along to it so that they plainly see a providence of God leading them from one Country to another As in Exod. 19.4 You have seene how I have borne you as on Eagles wings and brought you unto my selfe So that though they met with many difficulties yet hee carried them high above them all like an eagle flying over seas and rockes and all hinderances Thirdly when he makes roome for a people to dwell there as in Psal 80.9 Thou preparedst roome for them When Isaac sojourned among the Philestines he digged one well and the Philistines stroue for it and he called it Esek and he digged another well and for that they strove also therefore he called it Sitnah and he removed thence and digged an other well and for that they strove not and he called it Rehoboth and said For now the Lord hath made roome for vs and we shall be fruitfull in the Land Now no Esek no Sitnah no quarrell or contention but now he sits downe in Rehoboth in a peaceable roome Now God makes room for a people 3 wayes First when he casts out the enemies of a people before them by lawfull warre with the inhabitants which God calls them unto as in Ps 44.2 Thou didst drive out the Heathē before them But this course of warring against others driving them out without provocation depends upon speciall Commission from God or else it is not imitable Secondly when hee gives a forreigne people favour in the eyes of any native people to come and sit downe with them either by way of purchase as Abraham did obtaine the field of Machpelah or else when they give it in courtesie as Pharaol did the land of Goshen unto the sons of Iacob Thirdly when hee makes a Country though not altogether void of Inhabitants yet void in that place where they reside Where there is a vacant place there is liberty for the sonnes of Adam or Noah to come and inhabite though they neither buy it nor aske their leaves Abraham and Isaac when they * This soiourning was a constantresidence there as in a possession of their owne although it bee called soiourning or dwelling as strangers because they neither had the soveraigne government of the whole Countrey in their owne hand nor yet did incorporate them selves into the Common-vvealth of the Natives to submit themselves unto their government sojourned amongst the Philistims they did not buy that land to feede their cattle because they said There is roome enough And so did Iacoh pitch his Tent by Sechem Gen. 34.21 There was roome enough as Hamor said Let them sit downe amongst us And in this case if the people who were former Inhabitants did disturbe them in their possessions they complained to the King as of wrong done unto them As Abraham did because they tooke away his well in Gen. 21.25 For his right whereto he pleaded not his immediate calling from God for that would have seemed frivolous amongst the Heathen but his owne industry and culture in digging the well verse 30. Nor doth the King reject his plea with what had he to doe to digge wells in their soyle but admitteth it as a Principle in Nature That in a vacant soyle hee that taketh possession of it and bestoweth culture and husbandry upon it his Right it is And the ground of this is from the grand Charter gi●●● to Adam and his posterity in Paradise Gen. 1.28 Multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it If therefore any sonne of Adam come and finde a place empty he hath liberty to come and fill and subdue the earth there This Charter was renewed to Noah Gen. 9.1 Fulfill the earth and multiply So that it is free from that cōmon Grant for any to take possession of vacant Countries Indeed no Nation is to drive out another without speciall Commission from heaven such as the Israelites had unlesse the Natives do unjustly wrong them and will not recompence the wrongs done in peaceable sort then they may right themselves by lawfull war and subdue the Countrey unto themselves This placeing of people in this or that Country is from Gods soveraignty over all the earth and the inhabitants thereof as in Psal 24.1 The earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof And in Ier. 10.7 God is there called The King of Nations and in Deut. 10.14 Therefore it is meete he should provide a place for all Nations to inhabite and have all the earth replenished Onely in the Text here is meant some more speciall appointment because God tells them it by his owne mouth he doth not so with other people he doth not tell the children of Seir that hee hath appointed a place for them that is He gives them the land by promise others take the land by his providence but Gods people take the land by promise And therefore the land of Canaan is called a land of promise Which they discerne first by discerning themselves to be in Christ in whom all the promises are yea and amen Secondly by finding his holy presence with them to wit when hee plants them in the holy Mountaine of his Inheritance Exodus 15.17 And that is when he giveth them the liberty and purity of his Ordinances It is a land of promise where they have provision for soule as well as for body Ruth dwelt well for outward respects while shee dwelt in Moab but when shee commeth to dwell in Israel shee is said to come under the wings of God Ruth 2.12 When God wrappes us in with his Ordinances and warmes us with the life and power of them as with wings there is a land of promise This may teach us all where wee doe now dwell or where after wee may dwell be sure you looke at every place appointed to you from the hand of God wee may not rush into any place and never say to God By your leave but wee must discerne how God appoints us this place There is poore comfort in sitting downe in any place that you cannot say This place is appointed me of God Canst thou say that God spied out this place for thee and there hath setled thee above all hindrances didst thou finde that God made roome for thee either by lawfull descent or purchase or gift or other warrantable right Why then this is the place God hath appointed thee here hee hath made roome for thee he hath placed thee in Rehoboth in a peaceable place This we must discerne or els wee are but intruders upon God And when wee doe withall discerne that God giveth us these outward blessings from his love in Christ and maketh comfortable provision as well for