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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.
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, Cant. 5.4. My bowels were moved for him.
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⟩spi•itual 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, Cant. 5.4. My bowels were moved for him.