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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.
4. If you are deceived in your expectations, you will be in a miserable condition. I• you have presumed God to be your hiding place, and were never indeed gotten into him, you will be without any refuge when trouble comes. And for your help in this trial, take these Rules.
4. If you are deceived in your expectations, you will be in a miserable condition. I• you have presumed God to be your hiding place, and were never indeed gotten into him, you will be without any refuge when trouble comes. And for your help in this tryal, take these Rules.
1. You have foreseen a flood. A prospect of evil, in the consideration of it, was ever made use of by the spirit of God to bring men to Christ; Heb. 11.7. Noah bring warned of God, was moved with fear, and prepared an Ark. There is nothing else will persuade sinful men to repair to God.
1. You have foreseen a flood. A prospect of evil, in the consideration of it, was ever made use of by the spirit of God to bring men to Christ; Heb. 11.7. Noah bring warned of God, was moved with fear, and prepared an Ark. There is nothing else will perswade sinful men to repair to God.
2. You have seen the vanity of all other hiding places, and renounced them. Sinful man will trust in lying vanities, till he is effectually convinced that they are such: and as he will not go to God till then, so God will not accept of him, except he abjure all reliance on them,