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

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.

1. Be sure to carry it humbly towards God. God expects it, and is now putting of this grace to the trial; let it then have its exercise, and seek to him for help herein, and for your guidance in it.

1. Adore his Sovereignty: it may be your dejected and disquiet minds, are entertaining strange surmises about the Providence of God in this, & leavened, as his was, in Psa. 73. and 77. but know it; if you cannot resolve your selves in the particular reason of it, this is enough to silence and satisfy you, that it is of God, who can do no wrong, and is not to be contended with. Job was brought to this, before God had done with him: he was ready to say, behold, I am vile, Chap. 40.5. and to resolve to lay his hand upon his mouth.

1. Adore his Soveraignty: it may be your dejected and disquiet minds, are entertaining strange surmizes about the Providence of God in this, & leavened, as his was, in Psa. 73. and 77. but know it; if you cannot resolve your selves in the particular reason of it, this is enough to silence and satisfy you, that it is of God, who can do no wrong, and is not to be contended with. Job was brought to this, before God had done with him: he was ready to say, behold, I am vile, Chap. 40.5. and to resolve to lay his hand upon his mouth.