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Light in darkness, or, Deliverance proclaimed unto the church in the midst of all…
Light in darkness, or, Deliverance proclaimed unto the church in the midst of all her despondencies and discouragements in a sermon / preached by Thomas Watson.
London: printed for Hen. Bettenham, 1679
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Reason 2.
The Lord may cause a Dark Cloud to be upon the Righteous, a Cloud of Desertion, That he may hereby awaken, excite, and stir up in them a Spirit of Prayer.
If ever the Soul will pray to purpose, 'tis now, in an hour of Desertion. Fathers may hide their Faces from their Children, to make them cry after them the more; God sometimes hides the light of his Face, that we may cry after him the louder: As David, in Pfal. 143. 7. Hear me speedily, O Lord, my Spirit faileth: O! hide not t•y Face from me. My Beloved, desertion, it is a short Hell. Jonah called the Whales belly, the belly of Hell; Why so? Because he was Deserted there. And if ever Jonah would Pray to purpose, it was now, that he might get out of the belly of Hell. Jonah 2. 2. Out of the belly of Hell I cried unto thee, and thou heardest my voice.
If ever the Soul will pray to purpose, 'tis now, in an hour of Desertion. Fathers may hide their Faces from their Children, to make them cry after them the more; God sometimes hides the light of his Face, that we may cry after him the louder: As David, in Pfal. 143. 7. Hear me speedily, O Lord, my Spirit faileth: O! hide not t•y Face from me. My Beloved, •esertion, it is a short Hell. Jonah called the Whales belly, the belly of Hell; Why so? Because he was Deserted there. And if ever Jonah would Pray to purpose, it was now, that he might get out of the belly of Hell. Jonah 2. 2. Out of the belly of Hell I cryed unto thee, and thou heardest my voice.