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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. A Christian may be without outward comforts, and ordinary helps, and yet […] the hidings of Gods •ace. God can take away from his Children […] their health, […] strength, relations, estate, liberty, and •ake up all […] light of his countenance. Wa• […] no• so with David, when in the […] of the Shadow of Death, Psal. […] Prophet, when the Figtree did not blossom, &c. Hab. 3.17, 18▪ […], he can take […] the Ordinance• themselves from them, which are the ordinary way of their Communion with ⟨p. 15⟩him, and still be a little Sanctuary to them, Ezek. 11 16. God therefore giveth them that gracious encouragement in the want of all, Isa. 41.10. Fear not, for I am with thee, &c.
1. A Christian may be without outward comforts, and ordinary helps, and yet 〈…〉 the hidings of Gods •ace. God can take away from his Children 〈…〉 their health, 〈…〉 strength, relations, estate, liberty, and •ake up all 〈…〉 light of his counten•nce. Wa• 〈…〉 no• so with David, when in the 〈…〉 of the Shadow of Death, Psal. 〈…〉 Prophet, when the Figtree did not blossom, &c.