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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.
2. Our main business is with those that have indeed the root of the matter in them; have a principle of saving Grace, and belong to Christ, but are under Desertion. And there are two things which I shall apply my self unto in respect to these.
1. To direct them how to carry it under these Desertions.
2. To point what is to be done to get relief under, & deliverance from them.
1. For direction how to carry it under these Desertions. There is a right behaviour which God expects of his Children, when he thus treats them: and it is for his honour, and our advantage, that we comply with it. And there are three things that I shall urge on this account.