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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. 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,
2. It is prejudicial to the People of God: for them to place such an account upon the fiery tryal is much to their disadvantage: for that,
1. It tempts us to rob God of that glory which is his due, and we ought to give him in the fires: God expects to be glorified by his people, but whiles we look with amazement, and these things astonish us, we are more ready to dishonour him, by calling his wisdom, love, goodness, truth, &c. into question, if we count the fiery trial strange, we shall answerably have strange thoughts of God, and hard thoughts of Religion, so he, Psal 73.13. & 77.8,9.
1. It tempts us to rob God of that glory which is his due, and we ought to give him in the fires: God expects to be glorified by his people, but whiles we look with amazement, and these things astonish us, we are more ready to dishonour him, by calling his wisdome, love, goodness, truth, &c. into question, if we count the fiery tryal strange, we shall answerably have strange thoughts of God, and hard thoughts of Religion, so he, Psal 73.13. & 77.8,9.
2. It will wonderfully weaken our Faith in God, our trust and reliance on his promises, it confounds faith when a soul knows not what to make of things: while Jonah is amazed, he beings to draw up a conclusion of desperation, then I said I am cast out of thy sighs, Jon.2.4. Faith must have its evidence,