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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.
4. If we consider the end of these fiery trials, and that ariseth from the improvement which God, who is the prime agent in them, makes thereof, and it is to be discovered and observed by us in the operation; the substance of it is, it is to make his people more humble, more holy, more serviceable to the glory of his own great Name, more profitable in their generation, and better fitted and prepared for the Kingdom of glory, Moses sums up all briefly, Deut.8.16. Where ⟨p. 12⟩having given an account of the difficulties, and fiery trials which Israel met with in the Wilderness, he certifies them that the design of all these was only this, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good in thy latter end.
4. If we consider the end of these fiery tryals, and that ariseth from the improvement which God, who is the prime agent in them, makes thereof, and it is to be discovered and observed by us in the operation; the substance of it is, it is to make his people more humble, more holy, more serviceable to the glory of his own great Name, more profitable in their generation, and better fitted and prepared for the Kingdome of glory, Moses summs up all briefly, Deut.8.16. Where ⟨p. 12⟩having given an account of the difficulties, and fiery tryals which Israel met with in the Wilderness, he certifies them that the design of all these was only this, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good in thy latter end.
2. It is prejudicial to the People of God: for them to place such an account upon the fiery trial is much to their disadvantage: for that,