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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.
2. He is able to deliver you. This was an encouragement to the poor Leper to come unto him, Math. 8.2. If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And this it that which our Saviour enquired of them, Chap. 9.28. Believe you that I am able to do this for you. We should exert faith in his power, and that should carry us to him, because, though he is Sovereign, yet we are assured that he who is able, is also willing.
3. Jesus Christ hath purchased Salvation, He hath paid the price of it; He hath made himself an offering for it; it was the very business that he came into the world for: and doubtless he cannot but be willing to afford it to such as wait upon him for it; He is not willing to lose his labour, but would have all that hear of it, to come to him for it, and he hath said, that such as do come he will in no wise cast out, Joh. 6.37.
4. He is still standing before you, and offering you his Salvation. You cry out, he is gone; but though he be so as to your apprehension of his comforts and assurances, yet he is waiting to be gracious; yea he is striving with you, and bidding you to Look to him: and why should you say, there is no hope?