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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.
3. For what end or design doth he so hide his face?
4. To what degrees this may arrive?
5. How long this may be?
1. When God may be said to hide his face from his own.
A. The Expression is Metaphorical and allusive, and ascribed to God after the manner of men▪ God is a Spirit, and hath no body, and consequently no members or parts of a body; when therefore he assumeth such in the Scriptures, he speaks to us in our own language, and is to be spiritually understood Now the face is the most conspicuous part of the body, and is usually bare & open to view. The showing of the face to any is therefore frequently used for kindness, freedom, and familiarity; and