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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.
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, Psal.73.•6. When I thought this, i. e. the reason of these dispensations forementioned, it was too painful for me; his understanding was not able to bear the disquisition.
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 satisfie 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 tryal, Psal.73.•6. When I thought this, i. e. the reason of these dispensations forementioned, it was too painful for me; his understanding was not able to bear the disquisition.
4. We show that we look at things as strange, when we carry it to them as unto strangers; and that is in two things principally;