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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 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, Heb.11.1. which is lost in these transports.
3. It will fill the soul full of jealousies and strange suspicions, ready to say of every cross and trouble, this is certainly against me: he will take all for Enemies, and think God so too, and say as he, thou settest me for thine enemy.
3. It will fill the soul full of jealousies and strange suspitions, ready to say of every cross and trouble, this is certainly against me: he will take all for Enemies, and think God so too, and say as he, thou settest me for thine enemie.
4. It will make the trial by these means far more grievous and hard to bear, it will fret and vex the Soul, raise disquietments and discontents; we shall behave our selves like Ephraim, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke, Jer.31. 28. here is the very reason of all the unruly carriages of the people of God at any time under their afflictions, because they have not a right apprehension and opinion of them.
4. It will make the tryal by these means far more grievous and hard to bear, it will fret and vex the Soul, raise disquietments and discontents; we shall behave our selves like Ephraim, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke,