N00264:31
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. When they are a burden and wearisomeness to us, and we had rather have their room than their company: and this is a fruit of the former; for when we expect no good by them, but suspect some design of evil upon us from them, it makes their presence a burden and grief to us; and this puts us upon it to desire, and eagerly long for their departure, and if they tarry long we are quite tired out with them, and would use any course to be rid of them, they are such unwelcome guests to us: thus did Hezekiah Isai.33. 13. I reckoned till morning, that as a Lion he will break all my bones; from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
2. When they are a burden and wearisomeness to us, and we had rather have their room than their company: and this is a fruit of the former; for when we expect no good by them, but suspect some design of evil upon us from them, it makes their presence a burden and grief to us; and this puts us upon it to desire, and eagerly long for their departure, and if they tarry long we are quite tired out with them, and would use any course to be rid of them, they are such unwelcome guests to us: thus did Hezechiah Isai.33. 13. I reckoned till morning, that as a Lion he will break all my bones; from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
3. For the ground of the Doctrine: or why it becomes not the people of God thus to esteem of the fiery trial; this is evident upon a double account: For so to think is both in it self unreasonable, and also prejudicial to the people of God.
3. For the ground of the Doctrine: or why it becomes not the people of God thus to esteem of the fiery tryal; this is evident upon a double account: For so to think is both in it self unreasonable, and also prejudicial to the people of God.