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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.
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 w•thdrawings of ⟨p. 125⟩Divine light so great, that he may not be able to discern them, or upon strictest enquiry find them; and now he knows not what to make of himself: but to argue to the not being of Grace, from our not discerning of it, is not Demonstrative; it may be there, although beclouded as to your discerning: David had then a right spirit in him, when he sought to have such an one renewed▪ Psal. 51.10. And if it be there, your state is safe.
1. A Soul may apprehend neither life nor light, and yet a 〈…〉 of Grace be in it. Though p•obably Grace is never totally suspended from its actings, yet they may be so fain, and the of the so potent, and he wthdrawings of