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amongst them, or neere adjoyning Heathen did turne unto the Lord, he was not to be excluded. When a stranger shall sojourne with thee, and will keep the Passeover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come neere, and keep it: and he shall be as one that is borne in the Land: for no uncircumcised person shall eate thereof.

The good things promised in this Covenant are temporall or spirituall: but the temporall as types of spirituall. First God promised to give them the Land of Canaan for their inheritance, and therein length of dayes, riches, and honour, victory over their enemies, protection and peace. If ye shall diligently keep all these Commandements which I command you, to doe them, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his wayes, and to cleave unto him: ''Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possesse greater nations and mightier then your selves. Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread, shall be yours: from the wildernesse and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the utmost sea, shall your coasts be. There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the Lord your God shall lay the feare of you, and the dread of you upon all the Land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said. Thou shalt keep therefore his Statutes and his Commandements which I command thee this day, that it may goe well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou maist prolong thy dayes upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for ever. And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the Land which he sware unto thy Fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly Cities which thou buildedst not, and houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wels digged, which thou diggedst not, Vine-yards, and Olive-trees, which thou plantedst not, &c. Wherefore it shall come to passe, if ye hearken unto these judgements, and keep and doe them: That the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the Covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy Fathers: And he will love thee, and blesse thee, and multiply thee: he will also blesse the fruit of thy wombe, and the fruit of thy Land, thy Corne, and thy Wine, and thine oile, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the Land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. Thou shalt be blessed above all people, and there shall not be male or female barren amongst you, or among your cattell. And the Lord will take away from thee all sicknesse, and will put none of the evill diseases of Egypt,''