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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.
8. When we want these joys in exercise which are the privilege and duty of the Children of God. The Apostle could say, 1 Pet. 1.•8 Ye rejoice with joy unspeakable. And the Psalmist prays, Psal. 106.5 That I may rejoice with the gladness of thy nation. And we are bidden to be always in the exercise of this, 1 Thes. 5.16. Rejoice evermore. And Phil. 4.4. Rejoice in the Lord always Whereas, though he hath some hope, and is not altogether abandoned, yet he is full of trouble; his heart is heavy, he is a stranger to this joy, and goeth up and down with a grieved Spirit, and in the bitterness of his Soul. Such is the Psalmists moan, Psal. 42.3, 9. My tears have been my meat day and night, whiles they continually sa• to me, where is thy God? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy.
8. When we want these joys in exercise which are the priviledge and duty of the Children of God. The Apostle could say, 1 Pet. 1.•8 Ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable. And the Psalmist prays, Psal. 106.5 That I may rejoyce with the gladness of thy nation. And we are bidden to be always in the exercise of this, 1 Thes. 5.16. Rejoyce evermore. And Phil. 4.4. Rejoyce in the Lord always Whereas, though he hath some hope, and is not altogether abandoned, yet he is full of trouble; his heart is heavy, he is a stranger to this joy, and goeth up and down with a grieved Spirit, and in the bitterness of his Soul. Such is the Psalmists moan,