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

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.

2. Is your unbelief a burden to you? you find it very strong and overbearing, and it is too hard for you: you cannot persuade your misgiving hearts to resolve to trust in him, but you sink, and are cast down: but this is very displeasing to you; and you wish that you could believe, and condemn your selves for your irregular discontents, and say as, Psal. 42. ult. Why art thou cast down, O my soul, and why art thou disquieted in me? and Psal. 73.22. So foolish was I, and ignorant, &c.

2. Is your unbelief a burden to you? you find it very strong and overbearing, and it is too hard for you: you cannot perswade your misgiving hearts to resolve to trust in him, but you sink, and are cast down: but this is very displeasing to you; and you wish that you could believe, and condemn your selves for your irregular discontents, and say as,