Spiritual Desertion
Overview
First published in 1646, Spiritual Desertion offers comfort and consolation to believers whose circumstances cause them to wonder if God has abandoned them. Further Reformation leaders Gisbertus Voetius and Johannes Hoornbeeck demonstrate that the anxiety of doubting believers is proof that God has not abandoned them; rather, it is evidence of the work of the Spirit in their hearts.
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- Offers comfort and consolation to those who feel abandoned
- Explores the anxietey of doubting believers
- Presents insight on the work of the Spirit in the hearts of believers
Top Highlights
“Desertion in disconsolateness and spiritual numbness occurs when the Lord God refrains from blessing his elect with a feeling of the sweetness of consoling grace.” (Page 29)
“1) The things that always accompany desertion are the aversion to or non-acceptance of consolation” (Page 34)
“They are Christian believers, but they are believers with a burden who are wondering, asking questions of God, and feeling that, at least for the present, he may be abandoning them.” (Page 11)
“The second cause, the principal and most immediate and operative cause, is the lack of a clear appropriation by faith” (Page 33)
“The third argument is that the reality of faith does not consist in the abundance and feelings of consolation” (Page 50)
- Title: Spiritual Desertion
- Authors: Gisbertus Voetius, Johannes Hoornbeeck
- Series: Classics of Reformed Spirituality
- Publisher: Reformation Heritage
- Print Publication Date: 2003
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Hidden God; Spiritual life › Reformed Church
- ISBNs: 9781601781895, 160178189X
- Resource ID: LLS:SPRTLDSRTN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:06:45Z
Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian. He was pastor of the Reformed Church in Heusden, and served a delegate to the Synod of Dort. He was professor of theology and oriental languages at the University of Utrecht, and he later became pastor of the school.
Johannes Hoornbeeck (1617–1666) was a Dutch Reformed theologian and professor of theology at the University of Utrecht and the University of Leiden. He wrote polemical books, including Pro Convincendis, et Convertendis Judaeis.