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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.
1. That if you never were Converted, yet you may be. Here is sufficient ⟨p. 142⟩to support you against the desperate conclusion. He hath power enough to do it, for he is the Lord, God: he hath mercy enough to do it, for he is Merciful and Gracious: he may do it though you have long withstood him, for he is long suffering, there is nothing here to be objected, but what may be fully answered in his name.
2. There is enough in these Attributes to nourish hope in you, for;
1. He is a God that delights in mercy. Not only can he be merciful, but it is that in which he taketh great pleasure. All the contrivances of mans Salvation, which are recorded in his word, are a witness for this: and he is so recorded, Micah 7.18. He delighteth in mercy.