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

4. Call neither his truth nor his wisdom in question on this account. Say not, how can he bring good to me out of this, or what advantage can accrue to me by it? Say not, where is now the veracity of his word which he hath made me to hope in? how is this the performance of his promise? this is pride: Remember, His thoughts are not as your thoughts, nor his ways as your ways, but as high above them as the heaven is above the earth. Resolve that he is the Potter, and you the Clay, and that you will lye as such in his hand.

4. Call neither his truth nor his wisdom in question on this account. Say not, how can he bring good to me out of this, or what advantage can accrue to me by it? Say not, where is now the veraci•y of his word which he hath made me to hope in? how is this the performance of his promise? this is pride: Remember, His thoughts are not as your thoughts, nor his ways as your ways, but as high above them as the heaven is above the earth. Resolve that he is the Potter, and you the Clay, and that you will lye as such in his hand.

2. Have a care of rashly judging your own state from hence. How ready are the Children of God in a dark hour, to cast off their hope, & repeal their evidences, and vote themselves Hypocrites? this ought not to be, nor doth it serve to the d•ty lying upon you at such a time, but is c•ntra•y to it. God expects that now you should not let go your hold of faith on him, but that you take the faster hold, and say as he, J•b 13.•5. Though ⟨p. 122⟩he slay me, I will put my trust in him. And he, Isa. 8.17. I will wait on the Lord, who hideth his face. And for help, Consider,