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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. What it is to count them strange?
A. We look upon such things to be strange, which are,
1. Things unusual, and with which we have no acquaintance: such things as rarely happen, as scarce come once in an age, are esteemed to be strange things: a man whom we never or seldom saw before, and with whom we have not taken up any familiarity or friendship, is usually counted and ⟨p. 5⟩called a stranger: familiarity and strangeness are opposed each to other: so that then we count the fiery trial a strange thing, when we look upon it as a thing unusual, a thing not wont to befall the people of God, a rare thing; so the phrase is used, Luk. 5. 26. We have seen strange things to day: such as ages have not produced the like.
1. Things unusual, and with which we have no acquaintance: such things as rarely happen, as scarce come once in an age, are esteemed to be strange things: a man whom we never or seldome saw before, and with whom we have not taken up any familiarity or friendship, is usually counted and ⟨p. 5⟩called a stranger: familiarity and strangeness are opposed each to other: so that then we count the fiery tryal a strange thing, when we look upon it as a thing unusual, a thing not wont to befal the people of God, a rare thing; so the phrase is used, Luk. 5. 26. We have seen strange things to day: such as ages have not produced the like.