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Correction, instruction or, a treatise of afflictions
Correction, instruction or, a treatise of afflictions: first conceived by way of private meditations: afterward digested into certain sermons, preached at Aldermanbury. And now published for the help and comfort of humble suffering Christians. By Tho. Case, M.A. sometimes student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. now preacher of the Gospel in London.Correction, instruction or, a treatise of afflictions: first conceived by way of private meditations: afterward digested into certain sermons, preach'd at Aldermanbury. And now published for the help and comfort of humble suffering Christians. By Tho. Case, M.A. sometimes student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. now preacher of the Gospel in London.
London: printed by J.M. for Luke Fawn, 1652London: printed by J.M. for Luke Favvn, 1652
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.
Instances are endless: In a word, ⟨p. 91⟩the suffering time is the time wherein God makes his Attributes visible: The Lord will be a refuge to his people, a refuge in time of trouble, Psal. 9.9. and what follows? And they that know thy Name, will put their trust in thee, Vers. 10. In the School of Affliction God reads Lectures upon his Attributes, visible Lectures; and expounds himself unto his people: so that many times they come to know more of God, or more experimentally by half a years sufferings, then by many years Sermons.
A fifteenth Lesson: 1God teacheth them in a suffering condition to mind the duties of a suffering condition; to study duty more then deliverance; seriously to enquire what it is which God calls for under the present Dispensation. The Soul crieth out with Paul, 2when laid for dead at Christs feet, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? There is no condition or trial in the world, but it gives a man opportunity for the exercise of some special grace, and the doing ⟨p. 92⟩of some special duty: and that is the work of a Christian, in every new state, and in every new trial, to mind what new duty God expects, what new grace he is to exert and exercise.
A fifteenth Lesson: 1God teacheth them in a suffering condition to mind the duties of a suffering condition; to study duty more then deliverance; seriously to enquire what it is which God calls for under the present Dispensation. The Soul cryeth out with Paul, 2