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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. Things unexpected; such as come upon us at unawares; which we did not so much as dream of; it never entered into our thoughts to look for, and apprehend any the least probability or likelihood of such events. Those things which we do expect, they are not strange to us when they come, and that because we were in our expectance familiarized with them; but when they come suddenly, they surprise us: when we expected and promised our selves to live at ease, and not to be molested, and now trouble comes, we are amused: and thus strangeness is opposed to expectance, so it is used Joh.33.3. a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity, i.e. such as they were secure in their thoughts against, and seized on them unlooked for.
2. Things unexpected; such as come upon us at unawares; which we did not so much as dream of; it never entred into our thoughts to look for, and apprehend any the least probability or likelihood of such events. Those things which we do expect, they are not strange to us when they come, and that because we were in our expectance familiarized with them; but when they come suddenly, they surprize us: when we expected and promised our selves to live at ease, and not to be molested, and now trouble comes, we are amused: and thus strangeness is opposed to expectance, so it is used Ioh.33.3. a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity, i.e. such as they were secure in their thoughts against, and siezed on them unlooked for.
3. Things whereof we cannot give a reason: the cause of them is hidden from our cognizance, and we understand not either whence they come or what they come for; strange and admirable are sometimes used synonimically, so the word is used, I Pet.44. They think it strange that you run not, &c. i. e. they wonder at it, and think there is no reason for it: now admiration is a suspension of the understanding, when we see an effect, and are not able to dive into the cause of it: when we see that a thing is, and then sit down and consider either whence, or why it is, and cannot satisfy our selves about it, we then wonder, and place it among the number of strange things: and such an Opinion had the Psalmist conceived of the fiery trial,