A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the…

6thly. The Saints, or Sheep of Christ, may so fall, or to such ¹a degree lose the exercise of their Faith and Hope in God, as to be deprived of the Light of God's Countenance, and the Joy of his Salvation; Restore to me the Joy of thy Salvation: Nay, may wholly be in Darkness for a time, or have no Light: ²He hath kindled his Wrath against me; and he counteth me to him as one of his Enemies. I am gone, ver. 10. I am a lost Man, as if he should say, Thou hast laid me in the lowest Pit, in Darkness, in the Deeps. Free among the Dead, like the slain that lie in the Grave, whom thou rememberest no more; and they are cut off from thy Hand.—That walk in Darkness, and have no Light. I do not say that Desertion is always the Fruit and Punishment of Sin, though sometimes it is; ³yet it is always occasioned through the decay or want of the Exercise of Grace, or through God's withdrawing his sweet Presence and Influences of his Spirit from the Soul.

6thly. The Saints, or Sheep of Christ, may so fall, or to such ¹a degree lose the exercise of their Faith and Hope in God, as to be deprived of the Light of God's Countenance, and the Joy of his Salvation; Restore to me the Joy of thy Salvation: Nay, may wholly be in Darkness for a time, or have no Light: ²He hath kindled his Wrath against me; and he counteth me to him as one of his Enemies. I am gone, ver. 10. I am a lost Man, as if he should say, Thou hast laid me in the lowest Pit, in Darkness, in the Deeps. Free among the Dead, like the slain that lie in the Grave, whom thou remembrest no more; and they are cut off from thy Hand.—That walk in Darkness, and have no Light. I do not say that Desertion is always the Fruit and Punishment of Sin, though sometimes it is; ³yet it is always occasioned through the decay or want of the Exercise of Grace, or through God's withdrawing his sweet Presence and Influences of his Spirit from the Soul.