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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.
4. God may not be withdrawn as to Assistance, when he is so as to comfort: and certainly this affords matter of encouragement in a dark time. Nay, it is to be observed, that sometimes God gives more powerful assistances at such a time. When Christ withdrew, as to comfort, from the Spouse, Cant. 5. yet never was her grace in such vigour and resolution as then, expressing her insuperable love to him, her insatiable desire after him, and her unconquerable resolution to follow him, till she had found him again; nor did she ever give a more glorious description of him, than in that Desertion, Verse 10. &c.
3 Above all take heed of concluding your selves Reprobates. We observed, that sometimes the temptation may grow up to a readiness […] to do, and therefore it needs to be cautioned against, as a thing very dangerous▪ and for prevention, Consider,
3 Above all take heed of concluding your selves Reprobates. We observed, that sometimes the temptation may grow up to a readiness 〈…〉 to do, and therefore it needs to be cautioned against, as a thing very dangerous▪ and for prevention, Consider,
1. A Soul may apprehend neither life nor light, and yet a […] of Grace be in it. Though probably Grace is never totally suspended from its actings, yet they may be so fain•, and the […] of the […] so potent, and •he wthdrawings of