Trust in the living God
These are all dead show. Regard them not. Trust in the living God. So shall you be safe under the shadow of the Almighty. His faithfulness and truth shall be your shield and buckler (Psalm 91:4). He is a very present help in time of trouble (Psalm 46:1), such a help as can never fail. Then shall you say, if all your other friends die: The Lord lives, and blessed be my strong helper (Psalm 18:46). He shall remember you when you lie sick upon your bed. When vain is the help of man, when all the things of the earth can give no support, he will make all your bed in your sickness (Psalm 41:3). He will sweeten your pain. The consolations of God shall cause you to clap your hands in the flames. And even when this house of earth is nearly shaken down, when it is just ready to drop into the dust, he will teach you to say: O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory? Thanks be to God who gives me the victory through my Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:55-57).
1771 text
21. These are all dead shew. Regard them not. Trust thou in the living God. So shalt thou be safe under the shadow of the Almighty; his faithfulness and truth shall be thy shield and buckler. He is a very present help in time of trouble; such an help as can never fail. Then shalt thou say, if all thy other friends die, the Lord liveth, and blessed be my strong helper! He shall remember thee when thou liest sick upon thy bed: when vain is the help of man, when all the things of the earth can give no support, he will make all thy bed in thy sickness. He will sweeten thy pain; the consolations of God shall cause thee to clap thy hands in the flames. And even when this house of earth is well nigh shaken down, when it is just ready to drop into the dust, he will teach thee to say, O death where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Thanks be unto God who giveth me the victory through my Lord Jesus Christ.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 28 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:19-23.
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