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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.
• If therefore it doth not this for him, it is no hiding place to him. For this end it is called a refuge of lies and hiding place of deceit, Isa. 28.17. a refuge, because they fly to it: of lies, because cheated by it. Hence they made that complaint, Lam. 4.17. God therefore is an hiding place to his people.
• If therefore it doth not this for him, it is no hiding place to him. For this end it is called a refuge of lies and hiding place of deceit, Isa. 28.17. a refuge, because they flie to it: of lies, because cheated by it. Hence they made that complaint, Lam. 4.17. God therefore is an hiding place to his people.
1. Sometimes by outwardly preserving them from those evils: There are many encouragements for this, as hath already been observed, Psa 91▪ Isa. 26 20. Psal▪ 27.5 Jer. 36.26. And a Child of God, walking in his integrity, and standing clear of the evil of the times, may have no small hope of this.