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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.
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.
1. We may enquire into the nature and operation of this trouble.
2. We may observe, whence it is that th•se Desertions are so terrible to them?
1. Concerning the nature and operation of this trouble, we may first take a general description of it, and then trace it in the effects which it produceth in the Christian.