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

1. Acknowledge that it is Gods free grace that he comes at last. Account your selves well rewarded for all your waiting; and be so far from murmuring against him that he came no sooner, as to admire at his undeserved kindness that he would come at all. Let him then be entertained with all the Testimonies ⟨p. 105⟩of an heart ravished with his favour, and abundantly satisfied in hi• company: give him therefore all the welcome that possibly may be; express your gratitude to th• highest: let it now be seen in your whole carriage, that this change hath produced an answerable frame in your minds according as David tells us his did. Context verse 11. thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness.

1. Acknowledge that it is Gods free grace that he comes at last. Account your selves well rewarded for all your waiting; and be so far from murmuring against him that he came no sooner, as to admire at his undeserved kindness that he would come at all. Let him then be entertained with all the Testimonies ⟨p. 105⟩of an heart ravished with his favour, and abundantly satisfied in hi• company: give him therefore all the welcome that possibly may be; express your gratitude to th• highest: let it now be seen in your whole carriage, that this change hath produced an answerable frame in your minds according as David tells us his did. Context verse 11. thou hast turned for me my mou•ning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness.

2. Be humbled for all your unsuitable carriages under Gods hidings. It is now a proper time for you to be ashamed of your selves: and doubtless, if you will look back upon that hour of temptation, you will find enough to lay you low in the remembrance of it. David did so,