Sinossi
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1729 Excerpt: ... into the Land of Canaan, the Lord appeared to him and faid, Gen. xii. 7 ) Vnto thy Seed will I give this Land: and Abraham knitted there an Altar unto the Lord who appeared unto him. And when he returned from Egypt ("having been compelled to go thither by reason of the Famine) God renewed his Promise, and faid unto him, aster he had looked roundabout, (c. xiii. 15.) All the Land which that feest, to thee will I give it, and to thy Seed for ever. Afterwards, when Abraham desired a Sign for the Confirmation of his Faith, God gave him an extraordinary one; and then immediately by way of Covenant, repeated the Promise, faying, (c. xiv. 8, 18.) Vnto thy Seed have I given this Land, from the River of Egypt unto the great River, the River Euphrates. Farther, when he changed his Name from Abram to Abraham, (c. xvii. 5.) God made a perpetual Covenant with Abraham, concerning the Things promised, faying, (v. 7, 8.) / will establish my Cove. tiant between me and thee, and thy Seed after thee fg their Generations, for an everlasting Covenant, to be A God unto thee and to thy Seed after thee: And I will give unto thee and to thy Seed after thee, the Land wherein thou art a Stranger, all the Land of Canaan for an everlasting Pojfejffion; and I will be their God. Moreovei Circumcision was instituted as a Token of the Covenant, to be observed on the Part of Abraham and his Seed; (Gen. xvii. 10.) and God on his Part promised Abraham (when he was then an old Man, and his Wife well stricken in Age) a Sonlfaac whom he joyfully received at theappointed time. Thus we have taken a brief Survey of the Promise which was made to Abraham and his Seed, concerning their perpetual Inheriting of the Land of Canaan. B z The The fame Promise was renewed to Isaac, which God had before made ...
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