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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. 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,
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 evidenc•s, 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,