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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. If we look upon those that are the instrumental causes of it, which are Satan and wicked men, neither herein will it appear wonderful; either,
1. That they are ready and forward to afflict and persecute the people of God: he must needs be strangely unacquainted with their native malice, that thinks it is a strange thing: it hath been a truth from the beginning, that the World ever hated the Church: they hated Christ first, and thence it is no wonder if they hate his people too: our Saviour Christ to show what entertainment his Disciples are to expect in the World, compares his people to Sheep among Wolves, Mat. 10. 16. Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of Wolves. And the Wolf seeks no other quarrel against the sheep, but that he is a sheep, and if he can, will devour him, right or wrong: to be a servant of Jesus Christ, a sincere Professor of the Gospel, is enough to stir up the hate and malice of the World: Caius Sejus bonus homo, sed christianus, if they can in no other point charge them, yet this very name renders them odious: Its charge enough if they can charge them in the matters of then God: and we may as well wonder, way Serpents hate men, as why the old Serpents seed hate the seed of the Woman. nor,
1. That they are ready and forward to afflict and persecute the people of God: he must needs be strangely unacquainted with their native malice, that thinks it is a strange thing: it hath been a truth from the beginning, that the World ever hated the Church: they hated Christ first, and thence it is no wonder if they hate his people too: our Saviour Christ to shew what entertainment his Disciples are to expect in the World, compares his people to Sheep among Wolves, Mat. 10. 16. Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of Wolves. And the Wolf seeks no other quarrel against the sheep, but that he is a sheep, and if he can, will devour him, right or wrong: to be a servant of Jesus Christ, a sincere Professor of the Gospel, is enough to stir up the hate and malice of the World: Caius Sejus bonus homo, sed christianus, if they can in no other point charge them, yet this very name renders them odious: Its charge enough if they can charge them in the matters of then God: and we may as well wonder, way Serpents hate men, as why the old Serpents seed hate the seed of the Woman. nor,