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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.
1. Trouble is to be expected. It is a world of trouble we live in; nor are the best of Gods Children secured from it: whiles the Devil maligneth us, the world hateth us, and so much sin cleaves to us; & a wise God manageth our affairs for our good, we may look for trouble on all hands.
1. Trouble is to be expected. It is a world of trouble we live in; nor are the best of Gods Children secured from it: whiles the Devil ma•igneth us, the world hateth us, and so much sin cleaves to us; & a wise God manageth our affairs for our good, we may look for trouble on all hands.
2. God is not engaged to preserve any but such as have made him their hiding place. There are great and precious promises in this regard, but none can challenge them but such as by faith are gotten into God, and have made him their shelter.
3. If he do not preserve you, none else can. And if you do not believe this, you shall find it on trial to be true. You shall sooner or later come to that acknowledgement, Jer. 3 23. Truly in vain is Salvation looked for from hills and mountains, &c. Let them promise never so fair, they will deceive your expectations: What saith the Psalmist? Psal. 20.7, 8. Some trust in Chariots, &c. They are brought down and fallen, but we are risen, and stand upright.
3. If he do not preserve you, none else can. And if you do not believe this, you shall find it on tryal to be true. You shall sooner or later come to that acknowledgment,