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''now towards Heaven, and tell the starres, if thou be able to number them. And he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. I am the Almighty God: and I will make my Covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly, and thou shalt be a Father of many Nations. And I will make thee exceeding fruitfull, and I will make Nations of thee, and Kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my Covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in 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 possession, and I will be their God. By my selfe have I sworne, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not with-held thy Sonne, thy only Sonne, That in blessing I will blesse thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the starres of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore, and thy seed shall possesse the gates of his enemies. And in thy seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.'' The grand Promises of this Covenant are, that God would be the God of Abraham and of his seed, whereby is signified, that God would be to him, what he had revealed himselfe to be, his King, and Father, his Portion and Protectour; that he would pardon his sinne, write his Law in his heart, leade him into all truth, defend him from all evill, and in due time receive him unto glory. Happy are the people that be in such a case: yea, blessed are they that have God for their God. This God is our God for ever and ever, he shall be our guide untill death. And this is implyed, in that the Lord expressed himselfe unto Abraham to be Almighty, or All-sufficient, the nurse of all living things, strong, and potent to doe whatsoever he will, who can bring all things to nothing, as he made all things of nothing, can give and take away, give plentifully, abundantly, as pleaseth himselfe, whose goodnesse doth copiously reach unto all his creatures. The Sept. Interpreters sometimes expresse this title by the common name of God: sometimes they omit it altogether, and for I am God Almighty, they translate I am thy God: sometimes they put for it, the God of heaven, Psal. 91. 1. sometimes they render it by a word that signifieth fit, sufficient, strong and potent. Job 31. 2. but most commonly Almighty, Omnipotent, able to doe all things, Job 15. 25. and 22. 25. and 23. 16. and 26. 16. and 27. 11. and paraphrastically, who hath made