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1. It will be a safeguard to you in your passage through an evil world. It will keep and preserve you from all those uncountable mischiefs that lye strewed in the way you have to go: no enemy can do you any harm, no Devils or evils can prevail upon you, whilst you keep a firm possession of the Truth. It is a well fortified Garrison, and as long as you keep your selves within it, you cannot be wounded: do you but keep the Truth, and it will undoubtedly keep you, Prov. 2. 10, 11, 12. and chap. 4. 5, 6. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee; love her, and she shall keep thee. We shall therefore find David when complaining of the Oppression of his enemies, making of such a request, Psal. 43. 3. O send forth thy light, and thy Truth, let them lead me, and let them ⟨p. 75⟩bring me unto thy holy hill: he looked upon it as his sufficient security: his meaning is, that he would be under the conduct of Gods Word, or of those Saving Truths of God, and that shall satisfy him, he desires no more; and Psal 86. 11. Teach me thy way, O Lord! I will walk in thy Truth. It was a day of sore trouble, as appears by the beginning of the Psalm; and this is the help which he seeks against it. If you had all the world in combination against you, and all the Devils of hell added to them, to strengthen the Conspiracy, yet under this banner you should vanquish them all: this will make discovery of all those secret designs that are contrived against you; it will point you to the places where their ambushments are laid to entangle you, and help you to escape them, yea it will give you the victory, and afford you a glorious triumph after all the furious skirmishes that you have been engaged in; You shall see a thousand to fall at your right-hand, and ten thousand at your left, but it shall not come nigh unto you: It was never yet known that Truth ever left any, whom it undertook to be a convoy unto, till it had brought them clear through the deserts, and set them beyond the reach of any mischief.

1. It will be a safeguard to you in your passage through an evil world. It will keep and preserve you from all those uncountable mischiefs that lye strewed in the way you have to go: no enemy can do you any harm, no Devils or evils can prevail upon you, whilst you keep a firm possession of the Truth. It is a well fortified Garrison, and as long as you keep your selves within it, you cannot be wounded: do you but keep the Truth, and it will undoubtedly keep you,