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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.
A. The safety of a hiding place is the security is affords to them who fly to it: and that is to be seen in the sufficiency of it: Now there is all in God that can be looked for on this account: there is,
1. His Omnipotency. In this is Israels safety declared, Deut. 33 27. Hence compared to an impregnable rock, yea, a munition of rocks; a tower of safety, Prov. 18.10. The security of those that are covered with his feathers is set forth, Psal. 91. begin. Hence the Apostle challengeth, Rom. 8 31. If God be for us, &c And whence is this safety but from his Almightiness? Psal. 89.13. Thou hast a mighty arm.
2. His tender love that he bears to these. They are precious, as the apple of his eye; all that offer them harm, offend him▪ they are his peculiar treasure; he loved them from eternity, spared not his Son, but gave him for them; hath bestowed himself on them to be their portion, they are his own, and his honour is concerned in them.