An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

You shall have many poor Servants of God in affliction will say, As for these afflictions they are heavy indeed upon me, my Estate gone, or Husband gone, or Wife gone, my Friends leave me in this condition, yea, and it may be the hand of God is upon me in sickness, and so one trouble after another; Oh! but though these are heavy, had I but the light of the face of God upon me it would be nothing to me, had I but those comforts that once I had in the assurance of Gods love, it would not be much to me; but when all these outward comforts are gone, and I never saw God appearing like an enemy to me so as at this time, Doth God deal thus with any of his people? Am I not a Reprobate? For God doth use when his People are in affliction, then to appear with the light of his face to comfort and encourage them; but he hath not done so to me, even at this time I find God more terrible to my soul than ever yet I found him, and therefore surely I am but a cast-away: I make no question but some of you may know the meaning of such temptations as these are in the time of your afflictions, or if you have not known the meaning of them hitherto, you may come to know the meaning of them hereafter; and you that have known, or hereafter if you shall know what these things mean, Oh! treasure up this Scripture, it will be worth a world to you, For the Devil will mightily strengthen himself with this, What, are not you a cast-away? surely God hath rejected you, he would never appear against you in your afflictions if he had any love to you.

You shall have many poor Servants of God in affliction wil say, As for these afflictions they are heavy indeed upon me, my Estate gon, or Husband gon, or Wife gon, my Friends leave me in this condition, yea, and it may be the hand of God is upon me in sickness, and so one trouble after another; Oh! but though these are heavy, had I but the light of the face of God upon me it would be nothing to me, had I but those comforts that once I had in the assurance of Gods love, it would not be much to me; but when all these outward comforts are gone, and I never saw God appearing like an enemy to me so as at this time, Doth God deal thus with any of his people? Am I not a Reprobate? For God doth use when his People are in affliction, then to appear with the light of his face to comfort and encourage them; but he hath not done so to me, even at this time I find God more terrible to my soul than ever yet I found him, and therfore surely I am but a cast-away: I make no question but some of you may know the meaning of such temptations as these are in the time of your afflictions, or if you have not known the meaning of them hitherto, you may come to know the meaning of them hereafter; and you that have known, or hereafter if you shall know what these things mean, Oh! treasure up this Scripture, it will be worth a world to you, For the Devil wil mightily strengthen himself with this, What, are not you a cast-away? surely God hath rejected you, he would never appear against you in your afflictions if he had any love to you.