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

1. There are those that have had something of a common work on them, every one hath a natural Conscience in him, whose nature and office is to reflect inward, and apply practical truths to one self, and this Conscience is not at once brawned and seared: the Word & Ordinances are accommodated to meet with mens Consciences, to put them in fear, and make them solicitous: and the Spirit of God often comes in these means under which men sit, and strives, and gives them inward touches and awakenings, which puts them upon endeavours to get quiet; and though natural corruption seeks to stifle such motions, and divert them from them, and so quench the Spirit: yet they cannot always so do, but are put upon it to do something ⟨p. 115⟩that may bring them inward peace, and nourish in them an hope that it shall go well with them; that they are reconciled unto God, and shall escape his terrible indignation; so it was with them, Jer. 33.24.

1. There are those that have had something of a common work on them, every one hath a natural Conscience in him, whose nature and office is to reflect inward, and apply practical truths to one self, and this Conscience is not at once brawned and seared: the Word & Ordinances are accommodated to meet with mens Consciences, to put them in fear, and make them sollicitous: and the Spirit of God often comes in these means under which men sit, and strives, and gives them inward touches and awakenings, which puts them upon endeavours to get quiet; and though natural corruption seeks to stifle such motions, and divert them from them, and so quench the Spirit: yet they cannot always so do, but are put upon it to do something ⟨p. 115⟩that may bring them inward peace, and nourish in them an hope that it shall go well with them; that they are reconciled unto God, and shall escape his terrible indignation; so it was with them, Jer. 33.24.