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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. His tender love that he bears to these. They are precious, as the apple of his eye; all that offer them harm, offend him; they are his peculiar treasure; he loved them from eternity, spared not his Son, but gave him for them; hath bestowed himself on them to be their portion, they are his own, and his honour is concerned in them.
2. His tender love that he bears to these. They are precious, as the apple of his eye; all that offer them harm, offend him; they are his peculiar treasure; he loved them from eternity, spareà not his Son, but gave him for them; hath bestowed himself on them to be their portion, they are his own, and his honour is concerned in them.
3. His Omniscient watchfulness over them. And this follows from his love: he knows what ev•• they lie open to, and cannot but look after them his eye of all knowledge seeth the darkest design that are forged against them, and his care of the• keeps his eye constantly upon them, Isa. 27. 2, •. A Vineyard of red wine, I the Lord do keep it, […] any hurt it, I will keep it night and day; they some ⟨p. 387⟩times think that he forgets them, but it is impossible, Isa. 49. 14, 15, 16.
3. His Omniscient watchfulness over them. And this follows from his love: he knows what ev•• they ly open to, and cannot but look after them his eye of all knowledge seeth the darkest design that are forged against them, and his care of the• keeps his eye constantly upon them,