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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. Nay, this is the way to recover out of Desertion, and to be supported under it. God is wont to stir up in his Children a resolution to seek, and follow hard after him, in order to his gracious returning to them: and this will be an argument of a sincere soul, to say as David, Psal 63.8. my soul follows hard after thee; and it was in thi• way that the Spouse so found her beloved again, Cant. 5, & 6.
2. Let me now proceed to point what is to be done to get relief under, & deliverance from these Desertions: & here ⟨p. 128⟩let me premise, that though Gods Sovereignty is to be acknowledged, and must be submitted to, yet this doth not discharge us from our duty, nor tell us that it is vain for us to attend it: he hath therefore told his people, in his word, what he would have them to do at such times: and for direction,
2. Let me now proceed to point what is to be done to get relief under, & deliverance from these Desertions: & here ⟨p. 128⟩let me premise, that though Gods Soveraignty is to be acknowledged, and must be submitted to, yet this doth not discha•ge us from our duty, nor tell us that it is vain for us to attend it: he hath therefore told his people, in his word, what he would have them to do at such times: and for direction,