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[4.] Fourthly, If you are a holy person, if you have that genuine holiness, without which there is no happiness, then know for your comfort—that God will certainly bless all your blessings to you, and he will bless every estate and condition to you. Psalm 34:12-14. Most men have many blessings—but it is only the holy man who has hisblessings blessed unto him: Gen. 22:17, "In blessing I will bless you," says God to holy Abraham, that is, I will bless your blessings to you. The holy person is in covenant with a holy God, and therefore all the blessings of the covenant are his. All those who partake of the holiness of the covenant, they shall certainly partake of the blessings of the covenant. [Psalm 50:5, and 105:42; Ezek. 36:25-26; Zech. 3:3-4; Psalm 84:11; Proverbs 12:21, etc.] Now this is one of the blessings of the covenant, that all our blessings shall be blessed unto us.
O Christian! all your right hand blessings shall be blessed unto you, and all your left hand blessings shall be blessed unto you; all the blessings of the upper springs shall be blessed unto you, and all the blessings of the lower springs shall be blessed unto you; and all the blessings of the throne shall be blessed unto you, and all the blessings of the footstool shall be blessed unto you. [A little, blessed by God, is better than a world enjoyed. If you are a holy man, the God of all mercies—and all the mercies of God, the God of all comforts—and all the comforts of God, are yours, and what would you have more?]
And as all your blessings shall be blessed unto you—just so, every estate and every condition shall be blessed unto you; you shall be blessed in health—and blessed in sickness; blessed in strength—and blessed in weakness; blessed in wealth—and blessed in want; blessed in honor—and blessed in dishonor; blessed in life—and blessed in death; you shall be blessed at home—and blessed abroad; blessed at board—and blessed at bed; blessed lying down—and blessed rising up; blessed in liberty—and blessed in bonds.
Look! as all the blessings of a wicked man are cursed unto him; and as all the relations of a wicked man are cursed unto him, and as all estates and conditions which are incident to a wicked man are cursed unto him—just so, all the blessings of a holy man are blessed unto him, and all the relations of a holy man are blessed unto him, and all estates and conditionswhich are incident to a holy man are blessed unto him. [Proverbs 3:33; Mal. 2:1-3; Lev. 26; Deut. 28.] Isaac tills the ground, and sows his seed, and God blesses him with a hundredfold, Gen. 26:12; and Cain tills the ground, and sows his seed—but the earth is cursed to him, and commanded not to yield to him her strength, Gen. 4:12. But,
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