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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.
1. Be assured that all other refuges will deceive you. When the flood comes, every house will fall but that which is founded on the rock, if you depend on the world, it will be, like Egypt, the staff of a broken reed; it will fall, the overflowing scourge will bear it down. If you trust in your own wisdom or righteousness, or any thing of your own, it will not be a safe guard to you: the Wrath of an angry God will bear down all before it, and you will be so far miserable, ⟨p. 389⟩as you promised your selves defence from these things, which will thus woefully disappoint you.
1. Be assured that all other refuges will deceive you. When the flood comes, every house will fall but that which is founded on the rock, if you depend on the world, it will be, like Egypt, the staff of a broken reed; it will fall, the overflowing scourge will bear it down. If you trust in your own wisdom or righteousness, or any thing of your own, it will not be a safe guard to you: the Wrath of an angry God will bear down all before it, and you will be so far miserable, ⟨p. 389⟩as you promised your selves defence from these things, which will thus wofully disappoint you.
2. God, and he alone, can be a safe shelter to you. If he undertake for you, there is no fear: as his power is infinite, so his truth is unchangeable: if he promise, he will perform, if he say he will be your Salvation, he will give being to his word; if he be under a promise, all is settled.