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The fiery trial no strange thing delivered in a sermon preached at Charlestown February…The fiery tryal no strange thing delivered in a sermon preached at Charlestown February…
The fiery trial no strange thing delivered in a sermon preached at Charlestown February 15, 1681, being a day of humiliation / by Samuel Willard teacher of a church in Boston in New-England.The fiery tryal no strange thing delivered in a sermon preached at Charlestown February 15, 1681, being a day of humiliation / by Samuel Willard teacher of a church in Boston in New-England.
printed for Samuel Sewall, 1682
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.
2. The subject matter about which the Exhortation is given, viz. the Fiery Trial: the word ([Greek or Hebrew]) signifies burning, and so it is Translated, Rev. 18. 9. Thus also some render it here. It designs the more sharp and severe exercises of affliction, such as are occasioned by the violent oppression and persecution of Enemies, which are frequently in Scripture Phrase expressed by the Metaphor of Fire, from the manifold resemblance which is between them: it is here translated Fiery Trial, respecting the end which God looks at in ordering it to befall his people, and that is further expressed and amplified in the description; which is to try you; the Greek is, which befalls you for a temptation or trial, intimating to us the great design of God in all, even the severest Afflictions which his Children suffer; nor is it a vain Tautology, but a needful amplification; flesh and blood being very ready to count of it as rather to destroy, then to prove their Faith.
2. The subject matter about which the Exhortation is given, viz. the Fiery Tryal: the word (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) signifies burning, and so it is Translated, Rev. 18. 9. Thus also some render it here. It designs the more sharp and severe exercises of affliction, such as are occasioned by the violent oppression and persecution of Enemies, which are frequently in Scripture Phrase expressed by the Metaphor of Fire, from the manifold resemblance which is between them: it is here translated Fiery Tryal, respecting the end which God looks at in ordering it to befal his people, and that is further expressed and amplified in the description; which is to try you; the Greek is, which befals you for a temptation or tryal, intimating to us the great design of God in all, even the severest Afflictions which his Children suffer; nor is it a vain Tautologie, but a needful amplification; flesh and blood being very ready to count of it as rather to destroy, then to prove their Faith.
3. The Exhortation it self; Think it not strange, the word