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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.
1. The Scripture tells us of a time wherein Satan is to be let loose, in which he will rage extremely against the Church, Rev.12.12. and these are some of those days wherein these things are to have their accomplishment, as relating to the persecutions which Antichrist was to raise and continue against the Saints of the most High. It is true that the rage and malice of Satan and his Instruments are always eagerly bent to ruin the Church; yet are they tied up by the Sovereign Almighty Power of God, who stilleth the noise of the seas, and the tumults of the people; yet if he please to give them leave, and lengthen their chain of restraint, as he did in Jobs case, they will vent it to the utmost of their advantage and opportunity: it is a certain truth, that Satan and his Agents have no other stint or bounds of their malice then the limits of divine permission, they ever do as much as they can, & that they do no more is because God hath an hook in their nostrils; now God doth sometimes, for ends infinitely wise, give them leave to do a great deal, and vent abundance of their spleen against his People.
1. The Scripture tells us of a time wherein Satan is to be let loose, in which he will rage extreamly against the Church, Rev.12.12. and these are some of those dayes wherein these things are to have their accomplishment, as relating to the persecutions which Antichrist was to raise and continue against the Saints of the most High. It is true that the rage and malice of Satan and his Instruments are alwayes eagerly bent to ruine the Church; yet are they tyed up by the Sovereign Almighty Power of God, who stilleth the noise of the seas, and the tumults of the people; yet if he please to give them leave, and lengthen their chain of restraint, as he did in Jobs case, they will vent it to the utmost of their advantage and opportunity: it is a certain truth, that Satan and his Agents have no other stint or bounds of their malice then the limits of divine permission, they ever do as much as they can, & that they do no more is because God hath an hook in their nosthrils; now God doth sometimes, for ends infinitely wise, give them leave to do a great deal, and vent abundance of their spleen against his People.