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…

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.

3. It will fill the soul full of jealousies and strange suspitions, 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 enemie.

4. It will make the trial by these means far more grievous and hard to bear, it will fret and vex the Soul, raise disquietments and discontents; we shall behave our selves like Ephraim, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke, Jer. 31. 28. here is the very reason of all the unruly carriages of the people of God at any time under their afflictions, because they have not a right apprehension and opinion of them.

4. It will make the tryal by these means far more grievous and hard to bear, it will fret and vex the Soul, raise disquietments and discontents; we shall behave our selves like Ephraim, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke, Jer. 31. 28. here is the very reason of all the unruly carriages of the people of God at any time under their afflictions, because they have not a right apprehension and opinion of them.

5. And from all these, we render our selves exceeding uncapable of receiving Counsel, or Comfort: if God send ⟨p. 13⟩us advise, we cannot hear it, if consolation, we cannot receive it: thus we read,