A Saint Indeed

2. Q•er. Do you find the marks of an absolute total and final desertion upon your own Spirits, that you are so apt to conclude yours to be such? Do you find your heart inclined to forsake God? have you lost your conscientious tenderness in point of sin? if so, Sad characters appear upon you indeed: but if in this dark hour you are as tender of sin as ever, as much resolved to cleave to God as ever; I cannot, I will not forsake God, let him do what he will with me, oh no I cannot, If your hearts work thus, it can be but a partial, limited and temporary desertion; by this he still keeps his interest in your hearts, a sure sign he will return and visit you again.

3. Quer. Is sense and feeling a competent judge of Gods actions and designs. Or may a man safely rely upon its testimony ⟨p. 154⟩after so many discoveries of the fallibility of it? is this a sound argument? if God had any love for my Soul, if it were not quite gone, I should feel it now as well as in former times; but I cannot feel it, therefore its quite gone. Do not you know the Sun still keeps on his course in the Heavens even in full and close weather, when you cannot see it? and may it not be so with the love of God? read Isai. 50. 10. may I not as well conclude in winter when the flowers have hid their beautiful heads under ground, they are quite dead and gone, because I cannot find them in December, where I saw them in May?

3. Quer. Is sence and feeling a competent judge of Gods actions and designs. Or may a man safely rely upon its testimony ⟨p. 154⟩after so many discoveries of the fallibility of it? is this a sound argument? if God had any love for my Soul, if it were not quite gone, I should feel it now as well as in former times; but I cannot feel it, therefore its quite gone. Do not you know the Sun still keeps on his course in the Heavens even in full and closs weather, when you cannot see it? and may it not be so with the love of God? read