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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. To such as have had a clear and comfortable apprehension of Gods love, ever since their Conversion. God saw meet to give them eminent discoveries of his grace, in bringing them to Christ, and working the great change […] them, and did set the seal of it so […] that they clearly discerned it, and they, have maintained the comfort of […] still, by a continued Communion with God. There are some whom God so treats; and to such let me say.
1. To such as have had a clear and comfortable apprehension of Gods love, ever since their Conversion. God saw meet to give them eminent discoveries of his grace, in bringing them to Christ, and working the great change 〈…〉 them, and did set the seal of it so 〈…〉 that they clearly discerned it, and they, have maintained the comfort of 〈…〉 still, by a continued Communion with God. There are some whom God so treats; and to such let me say.
1. Acknowledge this as a great favour, w•th singular thankfulness. Let God have the praise of it, do you find comfort in it? remember it is his gift, and he doth not bestow it upon all on whom he hath conferred saving grace; think how many drooping souls there are, who do truly fear God, and would give a world, if it were in their dispose, that they might enjoy the serenity that you do. And let this put you upon studying how you may show your gratitude to ⟨p. 101⟩God for it; let it put you often upon making that enquiry, which David did on a like account▪ Psal. 116.12. What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits towards me?
1. Acknowledge this as a great favour, wth singular thankfulness. Let God have the praise of it, do you find comfort in it? remember it is his gift, and he doth not bestow it upon all on whom he hath conferred saving grace; think how many drooping souls there are, who do truly fear God, and would give a world, if it were in their dispose, that they might enjoy the serenity that you do. And let this put you upon studying how you may shew your gratitude to