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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.
6. Are there no cries and looks under this pressure? though you are overwhelmed, and look this and that way, and see no relief, yet you call and cry, ⟨p. 140⟩and cast a look towards God, as he, Psal. 142 3, 4, 5. When my spirit was overwhelmed in me, &c. I cried unto thee, O Lord! and said, thou art my refuge, and my portion in the land of the living. You are just ready to draw up desperate conclusions, but yet you resolve as he, Jonah 2.4. I will look once more toward thine holy Temple. You doubt that it is in vain, yet you cannot but groan after it: and is not this from the Spirit, who helps our infirmities, and supplies us with groans that cannot be uttered? Rom. 8.26.
6. Are there no cryes and looks under this pressure? though you are overwhelmed, and look this and that way, and see no relief, yet you call and cry, ⟨p. 140⟩and cast a look towards God, as he, Psal. 142 3, 4, 5. When my spirit was overwhelmed in me, &c. I cryed unto thee, O Lord! and said, thou art my refuge, and my portion in the land of the living. You are just ready to draw up desperate conclusions, but yet you resolve as he, Jonah 2.4. I will look once more toward thine holy Temple. You doubt that it is in vain, yet you cannot but groan after it: and is not this from the Spirit, who helps our infirmities, and supplies us with groans that cannot be uttered? Rom. 8.26.