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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
Sermon › God will keep them from trouble, whose hiding place he is. DOCTRINE.
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.
They that have made God their hiding place, may and ought believingly to depend upon him to preserve them from trouble.
THey that have made God their hiding place, may and ought believingly to depend upon him to preserve them from trouble.
We may here enquire,
1. What is the preservation from trouble, which God as an hiding place affords to his people?
A. We have already observed, how God preserve his people in floods of great waters, from v. 6. All of which is applicable hither, this therefore may be very briefly past over. God then preserves his people from trouble, when he doth any way save them from harm by, and makes them ⟨p. 393⟩to get the benefit of their troubles. There are many ways in which he doth thus, and he reserves to himself a liberty to display his wisdom, love and power herein. And here;