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The truly blessed man
The truly blessed man: or, The way to be happy here, and for ever: being the substance of divers sermons preached on, Psalm XXXII. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. N.E. ; [Five lines from Isaiah]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1700
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 he expects from God.
3. What he designed in his petition, and what improvement he would make of it, when obtained.
1. He declares what God is to him, Thou art my hiding place. He gives this for a reason why he addressed God in prayer. In the words we have.
1. The Object; Thou, i. e. God, of whom he is speaking all along.
2. That which his faith discovers in this Object, to encourage him; he is an hiding place. The root signifieth both to hide, and protect. A thing is hid, when it is put out of harms way, and God is an hiding place to his people when he secures them against evil.