Spiritual desertions discovered and remedied. Being the substance of divers sermons preached for the…

3. It takes away the Consolation even of Spiritual Duties and Ordinances. These are the relief of a Child of God, when he can find none else here, Psal. 73.17. till I went into the Sanctuary. If he met with any grief in the world, he co••d ease his mind in his Closet, and make up all at a Prayer, a Sermon, a Sacrament, by communion with his beloved; but now, when he comes thither, he is not there; he cannot see him as he hath seen him; and this makes bitter Sabbaths and Sacraments to him, nor can he take rest any where.

2. It falls them with fear; there is a filial, and there is a slavish fear; the one proceeds from the Spirit of Adoption, and the other from a Spirit of Bondage: ⟨p. 60⟩and as there are the beginnings of the one, so the remains of the other in the Children of God: the operation of these is divers, and oftentimes very much mixed in them at such a time; the Psalmist saith, Psal. 119.120. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy Judgments; and never more so, then when under Desertion• ; inasmuch as these afford occasions for this fear to be stirred: this night when it comes, brings its terrors along with it.

2. It falls them with fear; there is a filial, and there is a slavish fear; the one proceeds from the Spirit of Adoption, and the other from a Spirit of Bondage: ⟨p. 60⟩and as there are the beginnings of the one, so the remains of the other in the Children of God: the operation of these is divers, and oftentimes very much mixt in them at such a time; the Psalmist saith,