O, my brethren, those little ones that fear the Lord are the
children of the highest; therefore they shall not walk alone, be at
their spiritual meats alone, go to their sick-beds or to their
graves alone: the salvation of their God is nigh them, to deliver
them from the evil. This is then the glory that dwells in the land
of them that fear the Lord.
"He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him." Where now is the
man that feareth the Lord? let him hearken to this. "What sayest
thou, poor soul? Will this content thee? the Lord fulfil thy
desires. O thou that fearest the Lord, what is thy desire? "All my
desire," says David, "is all my salvation;" so sayest thou, "All my
salvation is all my desire?" Well, the desire of thy soul is granted
thee; yea, God himself hath engaged himself even to fulfil this thy
desire. "He will fulfil the desires of them that fear him; he will
hear their cry, and will save them." O this desire, when it cometh,
what "a tree of life" will it be to thee! Thou desirest to be rid of
thy present trouble; the Lord shall rid thee out of trouble. Thou
desirest to be delivered from temptation; the Lord shall deliver
thee out of temptation. Thou desirest to be delivered from thy body
of death; and the Lord shall change this thy vile body, that it may
be like to his glorious body.
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