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Spiritual desertions discovered and remedied. Being the substance of divers sermons preached for the…
Spiritual desertions discovered and remedied. Being the substance of divers sermons preached for the help of dark souls, labouring under divine withdrawings. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Four lines from Isaiah]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry and Benjamin Eliot, 1699
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.
5. Others are kept in the dark all their days; and possibly set in a cloud too; the Apostle speaks of some such, in Heb. 2.15. who through fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage; and we find the Psalmist thus representing of his own condition in this respect, Psal. 88.15. I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. Now in all these things God brings about his own glory, and carries on the saving good of his Children, and is not to be disputed but adored in the arbitrary conduct which he affords them through life and time.
5. Others are kept in the dark all their days; and possibly set in a cloud too; the Apostle speaks of some such, in Heb. 2.15. who through fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage; and we find the Psalmist thus representing of his own condition in this respect, Psal. 88.15. I am afflicted and ready to dy from my youth up. Now in all these things God brings about his own glory, and carries on the saving good of his Children, and is not to be disputed but adored in the arbitrary conduct which he affords them through life and time.
Proposition 2. That his so hiding from them, i• troublesome and terrible to them; it is that which oppresseth, and almost sinks & overwhelms their spirits.
There are two things that may here ••me under consideration.