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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.
In a word, what ever the affliction be, that it shall be the souls gain, Rom. 8.28. all things work together for good to them that love God, This God teacheth his people, it is the very design of the eight to the Romans, and of the twelve first verses of the twelfth to the Hebrews, to show that Gods Rod and Gods Love go both together. And this is a sweet and blessed Lessen indeed; for this quiets the heart, and supports the soul under its burden for this cause we faint not; why? because though our outward man perisheth, yet the inward man is renewed day by day, 2 Cor. 4.16. q. d. what we lose in our bodies we gain in our souls: what we lose in our estates we get in grace; thus they ⟨p. 99⟩bear up and comfort themselves in their deepest sorrows, while they that lie poring upon their afflictions, and are witty only to aggravate every circumstance of a suffering condition, sink their own spirits, vex their souls, dishonour God by slandering his dispensations; and bring up an evil report upon the Cross of Jesus Christ. The spiritual privileges of Gods suffering people, are therefore called the peaceable fruits of righteousness, Heb. 12.11. because the taste of this fruit brings in such peace and comfort, into the soul, as it makes it rejoice not in God only, but in tribulation, and in all these things to account it self more then Conqueror through him that hath loved us, Rom. 8.37. This is the sixteenth Lesson.
In a word, what ever the affliction be, that it shall be the souls gain, Rom. 8.28. all things work together for good to them that love God, This God teacheth his people, it is the very design of the eight to the Romans, and of the twelve first verses of the twelfth to the Hebrews, to shew that Gods Rod and Gods Love go both together. And this is a sweet and blessed Lessen indeed; for this quiets the heart, and supports the soul under its burden for this cause we faint not; why? because though our outward man perisheth, yet the inward man is renewed day by day,