Spiritual desertions discovered and remedied. Being the substance of divers sermons preached for the…

4. Take heed of saying, you shall never be moved. Take warning by David here; you may see in his example how dangerous a thing it is to draw such a conclusion from your present sense. God will have his Children to know, that ⟨p. 103⟩the preserving of their comfort depends on his pleasure; and would have them to be expecting changes every day, and be put upon carefully providing for them. Know it, if you gr•• secure and presumptuous in this regard, you are in all likelihood, not far from some fearful Desertion: Consider, that all which you can be positive •in, is only that in, Psal. 73.24. thou shalt guide me by counsel, and afterward receive me to glory; as for all the circumstances of the way in which he will conduct you, it is entirely at his dispose.

4. Take heed of saying, you shall never be moved. Take warning by David here; you may see in his example how dangerous a thing it is to draw such a conclusion from your present sense. God will have his Children to know, that ⟨p. 103⟩the preserving of their comfort depends on his pleasure; and would have them to be expecting changes ev•ry day, and be put upon carefully providing for them. Know it, if you gr•• secure and presumptuous in this regard, you are in all likelihood, not far from some fearful Desertion: Consider, that all which you can be positive •in, is only that in, Psal. 73.24. thou shalt guide me by counsel, and afterward receive me to glory; as for all the circumstances of the way in which he will conduct you, it is entirely at his dispose.