1. When God Is Said To Bless His People

Without doubt the inferior is blessed by the superior. When} God blesses, he bestows that virtue, that efficacy, which' renders his blessing effectual, and which his blessing expresses. His blessings are either temporal or spiritual, bodily or mental; but in every thing they are productive of that which they import. God's blessings extend into the future life, as his people are made partakers of that blessedness which, in infinite fullness, dwells in himself (Gen 1:22; 24:35; Job 42:12; Ps 45:2; 104:24,28; Luke 11:9-13; James 1:17).