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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.
3. The Gods people, though in the furnace, are yet very precious to him; yea that he chooseth them in the furnace: ⟨p. 17⟩Israel in affliction is often tempted to say, My God hath forgotten me; but God assures us that it is far otherwise: they are then as tender to him as the sucking child is to the pitiful Mother: you see how God thus expostulates the case with Zion in this regard, Isai.49.14,15,16.
3. The Gods people, though in the furnace, are yet very precious to him; yea that he chuseth them in the furnace: ⟨p. 17⟩Israel in affliction is often tempted to say, My God hath forgotten me; but God assures us that it is far otherwise: they are then as tender to him as the sucking child is to the pitiful Mother: you see how God thus expostulates the case with Zion in this regard, Isai.49.14,15,16.
4. That the fiery trial shall not be always, but only for the appointed time, until it hath wrought out Gods gracious ends, and then deliverance shall come: God will not suffer the rod of the wicked to be always in the lot of the righteous, he knows that if he should, the spirit which he hath given us, would fail and faint; he hath therefore promised that he will not contend for ever, nor be always wroth, Isai.57.17.
4. That the fiery tryal shall not be alwayes, but only for the appointed time, until it hath wrought out Gods gracious ends, and then deliverance shall come: God will not suffer the rod of the wicked to be always in the lot of the righteous, he knows that if he should, the spirit which he hath given us, would fail and faint; he hath therefore promised that he will not contend for ever, nor be alwayes wroth,