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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.
God is the pardoned mans hiding place. DOCTRINE.
A Pardoned Believer hath this security against harm by floods of Affliction, that God is his hiding place. We have in the former observed, what security such an one enjoyeth; we are now led to the foundation of it; and here we may enquire,
1. In what respect God is a hiding place?
2. What safety against Floods this affords […] them to whom he is so?
2. What safety against Floods this affords 〈…〉 them to whom he is so?
3. What consolation they may draw from this at such a time?