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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.
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.
1. Of this trouble take this general description; It is the most distressing perplexity of Soul, in a Child of God, arising from his apprehension of Gods withdrawing from him. We before observed that the […] used in our Text is very emphatical▪ which is engrossed in the description, and may be laid forth in the opening of it. Here therefore observe.
1. Of this trouble take this general description; It is the most distressing perplexity of Soul, in a Child of God, arising from his apprehension of Gods withdrawing from him. We before observed that the 〈…〉 used in our Text is very emphati•al▪ which is engrossed in the description, and may be laid forth in the opening of it. Here therefore observe.