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…

5. And from all these, we render our selves exceeding uncapable of receiving Counsel, or Comfort: If God send ⟨p. 13⟩us advise, we cannot hear it, if consolation, we cannot receive it: thus we read, Exod.6.9. Moses spake unto the Children of Israel, but they hearkened not unto Moses, for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Now all these things damnify us, & so prevent that good which otherwise we might derive to our selves from these exercises, how sharp soever.

5. And from all these, we render our selves exceeding uncapable of receiving Counsel, or Comfort: If God send ⟨p. 13⟩us advise, we cannot hear it, if consolation, we cannot receive it: thus we read, Exod.6.9. Moses spake unto the Children of Israel, but they hearkened not unto Moses, for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Now all these things damnifie us, & so prevent that good which otherwise we might derive to our selves from these exercises, how sharp soever.

Use. To wave other things, let me apply this truth for the helping of our faith unto a suitable improvement of the fiery trial which any of the people of God are at this day labouring under; and which we our selves also have weighty reasons to live in the continual expectation of; that so we may not so think of it, or entertain it as a strange thing: and to that end that we may have a right judgement, and soul satisfying apprehension of it, let us diligently and prudently compare the works of Gods providence, with those intimations which are given us in his word, and it will afford us a true and a full discovery of the true meaning of these things, and that in both respects.

Use. To wave other things, let me apply this truth for the helping of our faith unto a suitable improvement of the fiery tryal which any of the people of God are at this day labouring under; and which we our selves also have weighty reasons to live in the continual expectation of; that so we may not so think of it, or entertain it as a strange thing: and to that end that we may have a right judgement, and soul satisfying apprehension of it, let us diligently and prudently compare the works of Gods providence, with those intimations which are given us in his word, and it will afford us a true and a full discovery of the true meaning of these things, and that in both respects.