Correction, instruction or, a treatise of afflictions

By such hazards God doth come upon the soul as the Angel upon Peter in prison, ¹and smites upon our sides, bids us rise up quickly and gird up our selves, and binds on our Sandals, &c. ²that we may redeem lost opportunities, and do much work in a little time; It is pity to lose any thing of that which is so precious and so short.³

By such hazards God doth come upon the soul as the Angel upon Peter in prison, ¹and smites upon our sides, bids us rise up quickly and gird up our selves, and binds on our Sandalls, &c. ²that we may reedeem lost opportunities, and do much work in a little time; It is pity to lose any thing of that which is so precious and so short.³

1. 1Act. 12 7
2. 21 Cor. 7.29.
3. 310 Lesson. To value Christs sufferings. Lam. 1.12.

A nineteenth Lesson is how to estimate, at least to make some remote and imperfect guess at, the sufferings of Jesus Christ. In our prosperity we pass by the Cross, i. e. carelessly and regardlessly: at the best we do but shake our Heads a little; the reading of the story of Christs passion stirs up some compassion towards Him, and passion against his persecutors; but it is quickly gone: we forget as soon as we get into the world again: but now let God pinch our flesh with some sore affliction;