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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. God wills that at sometimes the truth be sealed to by the sufferings of his own people, as well as owned by their Profession, that he may make the fulfilling of that truth gloriously resplendent, Mat.16.18. The gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. The truth of the Gospel is never more honoured in the World, then by faith and patience of suffering Saints; they then glorify God, and his name is magnified, when his honour, and the profession of his name, and vindication of his truth is more dear and precious to them then their own lives, and they can readily sacrifice them, in the defence of it: hereby their faith appears in its vigour, and it is seen how powerful the spirit of God in them is: the trial of their faith is a most precious thing, better then that of gold, ⟨p. 15⟩I Pet.1.8,7. and herein the excellency of divine love makes it self eminent, in that many waters cannot quench it.
2. God wills that at sometimes the truth be sealed to by the sufferings of his own people, as well as owned by their Profession, that he may make the fulfilling of that truth gloriously resplendent, Mat.16.18. The gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. The truth of the Gospel is never more honoured in the World, then by faith and patience of suffering Saints; they then glorifie God, and his name is magnified, when his honour, and the profession of his name, and vindication of his truth is more dear and precious to them then their own lives, and they can readily sacrifice them, in the defense of it: hereby their faith appears in its vigour, and it is seen how powerful the spirit of God in them is: the tryal of their faith is a most precious thing, better then that of gold, ⟨p. 15⟩I Pet.1.8,7. and herein the excellency of divine love makes it self eminent, in that many waters cannot quench it.