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

2. That God hides his face the farther from them, the more they seek after him. They read, and hear, and pray, and ponder, but still it grows darker and darker under all; and from hence they infer that there is no hope for them ever to find him again: and hath it never been thus before? are you the first of Gods Children that have been▪ thus treated? God in wisdom hath set bounds & degrees to the Desertion; and he knows what is most proper and profitable for you: but what have holy men been wont to do when it was so? How doth David carry himself? Psal 22 begin and what saith the Church in that dismal distress ⟨p. 130⟩of her•? Lam. 3.26. it is good that a man should both hope, and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord: and God gives his people this encouragement at such a time, •er. •9.11. I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

2. That God hides his face the farther from them, the more they seek after him. They read, and hear, and pray, and ponder, but still it grows darker and darker under all; and from hence they infer that there is no hope for them ever to find him again: and hath it never been thus before? are you the first of Gods Children that have been▪ thus treated? God in wisdom hath set bounds & degrees to the D•sertion; and he knows what is most proper and profitable for you: but what have holy men been wont to do when it was so? How doth David carry himself? Psal 22 begin and what saith the Church in that di•mal distress ⟨p. 130⟩of her•? Lam. 3.26. it is good that a man should both hope, and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord: and God gives his people this encouragement at such a time, er. 9.11. I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.