The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

Indeed so much of his Quickening Spirit God leaves in the worst of times, as usually, to keep up the heart to duty. The soul will pray, will read, &c. but he gives not so much, as to carry the soul through the duty, with that life and vigour of affection, which formerly it had.

Indeed so much of his Quickening Spirit God leaves in the worst of times, as usually, to keep up the heart to duty. The soul will pray, will read, &c. but hee gives not so much, as to carry the soul through the duty, with that life and vigour of affection, which formerly it had.

Time was, that the soul never came to prayer without an inflamed heart, never upon the duty, without a quick and enlarged soul. But now the spirit is dead in duty, cold in duty, heartless in the performance of those things, wherein the heart was so much taken.

Time was, that the soul never came to prayer without an inflamed heart, never upon the duty, without a quick and inlarged soul. But now the spirit is dead in duty, cold in duty, heartless in the performance of those things, wherein the heart was so much taken.

2. God may forsake a man in respect of his Comforting presence. ⟨p. 65⟩Though man is not able to rob us of our comforts, and take away our joys, they are such as the arms of men are not long enough to reach; yet God he can. He may eclipse our joys, and damp our comforts, and withdraw the beams of his Countenance from us, and leave us in darkness and trouble. I say, he may turn our Day into Night, our Light into Darkness, our Comforts into Discomforts.