The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

USE I. Learn hence how ill they are provided for safety in a time of trouble, who have no title to God as a hiding place. No man would willingly be abroad in a storm; and he that sees one rising, and knows not where to secure himself it in a miserable condition; and no less unsafe are they, though more confident, who have their repose in that which will become a refuge of lies to them. Let it then be a word of awakening to all? Do you see a Storm coming?

1. Ask your selves where you intend to hide from it: And here,

1. Be assured that all other refuges will deceive you. When the flood comes, every house will fa•• but that which is founded on the rock, if you depend on the world, it will be, like Egypt, the staff of a broken reed; it will fall, the overflowing scourge will bear it down. If you trust in your own wisdom or righteousness, or any thing of your own, it will not be a safe guard t• you: the Wrath of an angry God will be• down all before it, and you will be so far miserable, ⟨p. 389⟩as you promised your selves defence from these things, which will thus woefully disappoint you.

1. Be assured that all other refuges will deceive you. When the flood comes, every house will fa•• but that which is founded on the rock, if you depend on the world, it will be, like Egypt, the staff of a broken reed; it will fall, the overflowing scourge will bear it down. If you trust in your own wisdom or righteousness, or any thing of your own, it will not be a safe guard t you: the Wrath of an angry God will be down all before it, and you will be so far miserable,