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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 Charlstown, 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. ; [Four lines of quotations]The fiery tryal no strange thing; delivered in a sermon preached at Charlstown, February 15. 1681. Being a day of humiliation: / by Samuel Willard teacher of a church in Boston in New England. ; [Four lines of quotations]
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. Or, as if a stranger came to you: so some read it: and his meaning is, that they should not entertain it as a thing which they had no expectation of, and were thereupon moved with wonder and surprise at the coming of it.
2. Or, as if a stranger came to you: so some read it: and his meaning is, that they should not entertain it as a thing which they had no expectation of, and were thereupon moved with wonder and surprize at the coming of it.
I shall not here endeavour to express all that might usefully be observed from the words, but among many Truths that might hence be treated of, make choice of that comprehensive one, for our present meditation. viz.
Doct. It becomes not the people of God to look upon the fiery trial which befalls the Church of Christ in the world, as a strange thing. We may take up the Explication in three things: 1. What is meant by fiery trials? 2. What it is to count them strange? 3. The ground of the Doctrine.
Doct. It becomes not the people of God to look upon the fiery tryal which befals the Church of Christ in the world, as a strange thing. We may take up the Explication in three things: 1. What is meant by fiery tryals? 2. What it is to count them strange? 3. The ground of the Doctrine.