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

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.

2. Acknowledge his Righteousness▪ Possibly you may, upon enquiry, see a sufficient reason for his so deserting of you; yea, the particular provocation that hath procured it▪ here is enough to bring you to his fo•t, and put you upon humble confessing his justice and equity in his proceedings: this David aims at in our Context, verse •. by telling us how his was introduced. But if you are at a loss about the particular occasion, yet you have always enough before you, if you are humble, to make you to say, God had reason enough to deal thus with me, and it is rich mercy, that he doth not always do so.