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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. It creates prejudices against God. He hath, in this condition, to do with the fierce Wrath of God; he apprehends that God hates him, and is his enemy, Job 33.24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and boldest me for thine enemy; and verse 26. thou writest bitter things against me. The very thoughts of God, ⟨p. 67⟩which were wont to be his relief and solace are now his distress, Psal. 77.3. I remembered God and was troubled; and he begins to call all the encouragements, promises, hopes that ever he had from him in question, and suspects the truth of them all, verse 7, 8, 9. will the Lord cast off for ever? &c. and is ready to conclude that he hath served an hard master; to say, as Psa• •• 13. I have cleansed mine heart in […] have washed mine hands in innocency.
2. It creates prejudices against God. He hath, in this condition, to do with the fierce Wrath of God; he apprehends that God hates him, and is his enemy, Job 33.24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and boldest me for thine enemy; and verse 26. thou writest bitter things against me. The very thoughts of God, ⟨p. 67⟩which were wont to be his relief and solace are now his distress, Psal. 77.3. I remembred God and was troubled; and he begins to call all the encouragements, promises, hopes that ever he had from him in question, and suspects the truth of them all, verse 7, 8, 9. will the Lord cast off for ever? &c. and is ready to conclude that he hath served an hard master; to say, as Psa• •• 13. I have cleansed mine heart in 〈…〉 have wa•hed mine hands in innocency.