“But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul…”
1 Sam. 16:14
“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?”
Ps. 22:1
“And the Lord said, ‘Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not…'”
Lk. 22:31-32
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Order of Contents
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Article
1700’s
à Brakel, Wilhelmus – The Christian’s Reasonable Service, vol. 4 ed. Joel Beeke, tr. Bartel Elshout Buy (1700; RHB, 1992/1999)
ch. 91, ‘Spiritual Desertion’, pp. 171-93
ch. 97, ‘Spiritual Darkness [in believers]’, pp. 259-65
ch. 98, ‘Spiritual Deadness [in believers]’, pp. 265-75
a Brakel (1635-1711) was a contemporary of Voet and Witsius and a major representative of the Dutch Further Reformation.
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Books
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert & Johannes Hoornbeeck – Spiritual Desertion tr. Vriend & Boonstra (Baker Academic, 2003) 165 pp. ToC
Symonds, Joseph – The Case & Cure of a Deserted Soul
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On the Father’s Desertion of Christ
Latin
Voet, Gisbert – Select Theological Disputations (Utrecht: Waesberg, 1655), vol. 2
9. ‘Of the Agony & Desertion of Christ, Lk. 22:41-45; Mt. 27:46’, pp. 164-72
10. ‘Of the Same, Appendix on Sweating Blood’, pp. 172-88
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“Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.”
Hosea 4:17
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together… and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.”
Mt. 23:37-38
“Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine, and the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted,
Ps. 80:14-15
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