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

1. It is no new thing for Gods Children to be Deserted. It ought not then to be a strange thing to you, much less an argument that because of this, you are none of his Children. This stopped the Psalmists mouth, Psal. 73.15. If I say, I will speak thus, I should offend against the generation of thy Children. As to the more remiss Desertions, it may be said to you, as, 1 Cor. 10.13. There hath no temptation taken you, but such as i• common to man. And if you combat with such as are more intense, and full of darkness, yet you are not without the instances of such, who were very dear to God. There can then be no such conclusion safely built on this argument: it cannot amount to a Demonstration, since this is one part of the way in which God leads his own to glory.

1. It is no new thing for Gods Children to be Deserted. It ought not then to be a strange thing to you, much less an argument that because of this, you are none of his Children. This stopt the Psalmists mouth, Psal. 73.15. If I say, I will speak thus, I should offend against the generation of thy Children. As to the more remiss Desertions, it may be said to you, as, 1 Cor. 10.13. There hath no temptation taken you, but such as i• common to man. And if you combate with such as are more intense, and full of darkness, yet you are not without the instances of such, who were very dear to God. There can then be no such conclusion safely built on this argument: it cannot amount to a Demonstration, since this is one part of the way in which God leads his own to glory.

2. There may be Grace where there wants light: it is true, a Child of God cannot see or read it, when the light is taken from him: but possibly he hath read it, when he enjoyed this light: and the withdrawing of it from him doth