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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.
1. The Ill Improvement that he had made of his prosperous state, verse 6. and that was to Carnal Security; though he still acknowledged God in it, verse 7. David forgot himself; and carnal confidence is usually followed with temptations which are too hard for us: and we may think that he hath a tacit respect to the matter of Uriah.
1. The Ill Improvement that he had made of his prosperous state, verse 6. and that was to Carnal Security; though he still acknowledged God in it, verse 7. David forgat himself; and carnal confidence is usually followed with temptations which are too hard for us: and we may think that he hath a tacit respect to the matter of Uriah.
2. The sudden change that befell him on this, Text.
2. The sudden change that befel him on this, Text.
3. What course he took when under such a condition; he sat himself to Prayer, to verse 11.