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Nothing is more frequent and common in the Scriptures ⟨p. 85⟩than promises to the faithful: It is the current of them all, and that which they principally drive at, to assure them that rely upon God, that their state is most comfortable. How often are the acclamations added to the end of sentences in the Psalms: Blessed are all that trust in him. O Lord God of hosts, ¹blessed is the man that trusteth in thee, &c. And how evidently and elegantly doth Jeremiah, among the rest of the Prophets, declare the same, saying, Blessed is the man that trusteth in the ²Lord, and whose hope the Lord is; for he shall be as a tree that is planted by the water, which spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not feel when the heat cometh: but her leaf shall be green, and shall not care for the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

Nothing is more frequent and common in the Scriptures ⟨p. 85⟩than promises to the faithfull: It is the current of them all, and that which they principally driue at, to assure them that relie vpon God, that their state is most comfortable. How often are the acclamations added to the end of sentences in the Psalmes: Blessed are all that trust in him. O Lord God of hosts, ¹blessed is the man that trusteth in thee, &c. And how euidently and elegantly doth Ieremie, among the rest of the Prophets, declare the same, saying, Blessed is the man that trusteth in the ²Lord, and whose hope the Lord is; for he shall be as a tree that is planted by the water, which spreadeth out her roots by the riuer, and shall not feele when the heat commeth: but her leafe shall be greene, and shall not care for the yeere of drought, neither shall cease from yeelding fruit.

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