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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.
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.
1. What is meant by fiery Trials?
1. What is meant by fiery Tryals?
A. Trials in propriety of speech, are such experiments as are made, for the finding out of the nature, qualities, and operation of things, when they are applied, in our speech, to rational agents, they then intend, either an Essay of Endeavour to draw, and by Arguments to persuade men to any thing which we have a design to make use of them in, and so they are called temptations, and in which sense mainly, the Devil is called the Tempter, because he useth all endeavours to insinuate into, and gain men to follow his suggestions: or else a proof which we are minded to make of the fidelity, sincerity, and constancy which is in a person, that we may know him the better, and so they are more peculiarly called Trials: in this sense it is said, A wise man will try before he will trust; thus God put Abraham's faith and obedience to the trial, Gen.22.beginning. ⟨p. 4⟩Afflictions in Scripture language often bear the name of trials, because by them proof is made of Professors, and men are tried so as to be discovered, oftentimes, whither they be indeed sincere or hypocritical; and indeed it is one of the best evidences we can have of mens integrity, when these drive them not from, but establish them in their profession.