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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.
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2 That the end of Gods discovering himself to his people by such titles, is to give them advantage to take ⟨p. 395⟩hold of him thereby. God in his back parts is the object of his peoples faith, for none can see his face and live. We only have communion with him in his declarative Glory; and he hath made it his peoples duty to take hold of him, Isa. 64.7. And the way in which we may so do, is in his precious Attributes, which are as so many handles on which our faith may fasten. Hence we read of taking hold on his strength, Isa. 27.5. It is therefore to encourage this that he hath proclaimed his name in those golden letters, Exod. 34.6.
3. Hence God will certainly make good every relative title for all those to whom he stands so related. When he makes himself over to them in the New-Covenant to be their portion, he giveth all that which he hath revealed of himself in his Word, to be theirs, Lam. 3.24. And he would never so give himself to them, if he did unchangeably purpose to be all that to them, which he hath entitled them unto, Mal. 3.6. For it was his own free unnecessitated act: having therefore so obliged himself, he will never go back, Isa. 45.19. I said not to the house of Israel, seek me in vain.
3. Hence God will certainly make good every relative title for all those to whom he stands so related. When he makes himself over to them in the New-Covenant to be their portion, he giveth all that which he hath revealed of himself in his Word, to be theirs,