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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 › Doctrine 5: Every true believer is compassed with mercy. DOCTRINE V.
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. This mercy compasseth you. It is suited to all your cases: it accommodates it self to our outward and inward condition, and will be ready to help you in them; you can look to nothing that would hurt you, but you may see mercy guarding you against it.
3. Think what mercies they are that thus compass you, and this will be enough to establish your faith and fix it unmoveably: Consider whose mercies they are, viz. Gods, and then,
1. They are sufficient to answer all your ends. Gods mercies are like himself, Infinite, and so cannot be outbid by any misery that you can be assaulted by. You may safely set Infinite mercy against all temptations, adversities, difficulties that are in your way, and they will vanquish all, & keep you safe.
2. They are sure mercies. If once yours, they will not fail you, Isa. 55.3. They are ratified in the Covenant to the people of God by a promise that cannot be repealed▪ and a God who cannot lie; they will never desert you.