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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.
2. He sometimes saves them in their troubles. They come, but he is a present help, Psal. 46.1. Sometimes he preserves them from the utmost extremity; the tempest is in measure, Isa. 27.8. He is with them in water and fire, to limit them, Isa. 43.2. So he acknowledgeth, Psal. 118.18 And he preserves their grace in exercise, and competent vigour under all; whatsoever batteries are made on the outward man, the inward man is sustained; the floods cannot drown their grace; it groweth stronger and stronger, 2 Cor. 4 16. Their bow abides in strength, and they can trust in God, though he slay them.
3 He many times preserves them out of these troubles They out live the flood, to enjoy a calmness and serenity again in this world; they pass ⟨p. 394⟩through fire and water, but at length he brings them to a wealthy place, Psal. 66.12. thus Job weathered all his calamities; thus also it was with the Psalmist, Psal. 40. begin.
4. He preserves them from the evil of these troubles, and turns them all for their good, in the winding up. He maketh a medicine of this viper, and purgeth away sin with it,