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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. 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, Hos. 14.3. vers. 8.
3. You have been lifted up by a mighty arm into the rock that is higher than you. You did not go into this hiding place by your own strength, but were brought into it by Almighty power; and have accordingly apprehended your own strengthlesness, and felt the efficacy of his grace in causing you to believe; if he had not drawn you, you had not run after him.
4. You have taken Christ for your all. If you have made him your hiding place, you have also received him for your Lord and King: they that have truly trusted in him, to be saved by him, have cordially submitted to his Government; they that have not made him their all, have not made him any thing to them.
USE III. For Exhortation to the people of God: Have you made Christ your hiding place? Believe the in him for preservation from trouble. Consider,