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

3. That this change in Providence, hath made no change in God. God saith to deserted Jacob, Mat. 3.6. I am God, I change, not, therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed: he hath reasons in the management of his Kingdom of Grace in you, to alter his dispensations, but he is still driving on the same design, he intends one thing, both in his manifestations and hidings of himself, and that is to bring you to glory.

5. Strictly observe, whether there be no weak stirrings of Faith and Repentance, notwithstanding the Desertion; if you can discern the least motion of any Grace, it may greatly support you, because it witnesseth that •he is your father, and will not forsake you, Here then,

5. St•ictly observe, whether there be no weak stirrings of Faith and Repentance, notwithstanding the Desertion; if you can discern the least motion of any Grace, it may greatly support you, because it witnesseth that •he is your father, and will not forsake you, Here then,

1. Do you indeed miss him, and are you grieved at it? It is a t•ken of Grace in the heart, that we are sensible of his ⟨p. 138⟩spiritual retirings from us, especially, when with this sense we are sorrowful for it, and cannot bear it without bitterness; So it was with the Spouse,