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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 Christians life depends on the influence of the love of God Paul saith, Gal 2 20. I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me. There is a double life of a Child of God; a life of holiness, and a li•e of comfort; the one belongs to his Sanctification, the other is a part of his Inchoate Glory: now the maintenance and support of both these flows from the Communications of Gods love to him: Not only doth God in love bestow the principles of holiness upon him as Jer. 31.3. I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore in loving kindness have I drawn thee: But the upholding & acting of it, is by the same author, John 15.1•. without me […] do nothing. Phil. 4.13. I can do all things, through Christ strengthening me; he also is the God of all Consolation, as he is called, Rom. 15.5.
1. The Christians life depends on the influence of the love of God Paul saith, Gal 2 20. I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me. There is a double life of a Child of God; a life of holiness, and a li•e of comfort; the one belongs to his Sanctification, the other is a part of his Inchoate Glory: now the maintainance and support of both these flows from the Communications of Gods love to him: Not only doth God in love bestow the principles of holiness upon him as Jer. 31.3. I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore in loving kindness have I drawn thee: But the upholding & acting of it, is by the same author, John 15.1•. without me 〈…〉 do nothing. Phil. 4.13. I can do all things, through Christ strengthning me; he also is the God of all Consoation, as he is called,