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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.
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, Exod. 6. 9. Moses spake unto the Children of Israel, but they hearkened not unto Moses, for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Now all these things damnify us, & so prevent that good which otherwise we might derive to our selves from these exercises, how sharp soever.
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, Exod. 6. 9