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The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…
The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being the substance of divers sermons preached on Psalm XXXII / by Samuel Willard.
printed by B. Green and J. Allen for Michael Perry, 1650
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. What safety from the floods they have by it, to whom he is so?
A. The safety of a hiding place is the security to affords to them who fly to it: and that is to be seen in the sufficiency of it: Now there is all in God that can be looked for on this account there is,
1. His Omnipotency. In this is Israels safety declared, Deut. 33. 27. Hence compared to an impregnable rocks, yea, a munition of rocks; a tower of safety, Prov. 18. 10. The security of those that are covered with his feathers is set forth, Psal. 91. begin. Hence the Apostle challengeth, Rom. 8. 31. If God be for us, &c. And whence is this safety but from his Almightiness? Psal. 89. 13. Thou hast a mighty arm.