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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.
3. What course he took when under such a condition; he sat himself to Prayer, to verse 11.
4 The blessed event of it, ver. 11, 12
The words of our Text then contain ⟨p. 10⟩the second of these remarks, or the sudden change that befell the Psalmist, when he least suspected it: he was gotten over his troubles, settled in his Kingdom with great tranquility; and now he thought his troubles were at an end, & he should spend the rest of his time in ease; and the rather because he maintained the Worship of God in his house, and acknowledged God to be the author of his Settlement: and on a sudden the Scene is altered, and he is again plunged into as deep distress as ever. In the words observe two things:
The words of our Text then contain ⟨p. 10⟩the second of these remarks, or the sudden change that befel the Psalmist, when he least suspected it: he was gotten over his troubles, settled in his Kingdom with great tranquility; and now he thought his troubles were at an end, & he sho•ld spend the rest of his time in ease; and the rather because he maintained the Worship of God in his house, and acknowledged God to be the author of his Settlement: and on a sudden the Scene is altered, and he is again plunged into as deep distress as ever. In the words observe two things: