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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 Gods Sovereignty is to be adored in these Dispensations. The best way to silence the cavillings of corrupt nature about the degree or duration of Gods absconding from his Children, •s that of Elihu, Job. 33.13. he giveth no account of any of his matters: and if we have risings of heart against this, God will, before he hath done with us, bring •s to acknowledge, that here is reason enough to stop our mouth•: so he did by Job.
1. That Gods Soveraignty is to be adored in these Dispensations. The best way to silence the cavellings of corrupt nature about the degree or duration of Gods absconding from his Children, •s that of Elihu, Job. 33.13. he giveth no account of any of his matters: and if we have risings of heart against this, God will, before he hath done with us, bring •s to acknowledge, that here is reason enough to stop our mouth•: so he did by Job.
2. Yet the Desertion shall last no longer than till the end of it is attained. God aims at something by it, and accordingly, useth it as a medium in order thereunto; and consequently he will continue it no longer then till he hath done that by it which he designed▪ it for; and this must needs be so, because God is infinitely wise, and will do no thing in vain: how then should he continue to do that which himself calls his strange work, any longer then there is occasion for it.
2. Yet the Desertion shall last no longer than till the end of it is attained. God aims at something by it, and accordingly, useth it as a medium in order thereunto; and consequently he will continue it no longer then till he hath done that by it which he designed it for; and this must needs be so, because God is infinitely wise, and will do no thing in vain: how then should he continue to do that which himself calls his strange wrk, any longer then there is occasion for it.