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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.
1. It tempts us to rob God of that glory which is his due, and we ought to give him in the fires: God expects to be glorified by his people, but whiles we look with amazement, and these things astonish us,, we are more ready to dishonour him, by calling his wisdom, love, goodness, truth, &c. into question, if we count the fiery trial strange, we shall answerably have strange thoughts of God, and hard thoughts of Religion, so he, Psal. 73. 13. & 77. 8, 9.
1. It tempts us to rob God of that glory which is his due, and we ought to give him in the fires: God expects to be glorified by his people, but whiles we look with amazement, and these things astonish us,, we are more ready to dishonour him, by calling his wisdome, love, goodness, truth, &c. into question, if we count the fiery tryal strange, we shall answerably have strange thoughts of God, and hard thoughts of Religion, so he, Psal. 73. 13. & 77. 8, 9.
2. It will wonderfully weaken our Faith in God, our trust and reliance on his promises, it confounds faith when a soul knows not what to make of things: while Jonah is amazed, he begins to draw up a conclusion of desperation, then I said I am cast out of thy sight, Jon. 2. 4. Faith must have its evidence, Heb. 11. 1. which is lost in these transports.
3. It will fill the soul full of jealousies and strange suspicions, ready to say of every cross and trouble, this is certainly against me: he will take all for Enemies, and think God so too, and say as he, thou settest me for thine enemy.