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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
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Indeed of all these Glasses, the blood of Christ is the clearest, and doth most fully & perfectly represent the exceeding sinfulness that is in sin, the stain and spot whereof could be washed out with no other element but the blood of the Son of God; for as it was purchasing blood, so it was expiating blood. He hath loved us and washed us with his own blood. 1But though this be the purest ⟨p. 115⟩glass, yet God doth make frequent and great use of the third glass also: sc. afflictions and chastisements for sin to discover to the Children of promise, the greatness of that evil which is in sin. It is very notable how God brings the Israelites this glass in their affliction, and bids them as it were see their face in it. Jer. 2. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of Hosts. verse 19. In this glass he discovers to them a fourfold evil in sin.
Indeed of all these Glasses, the blood of Christ is the clearest, and doth most fully & perfectly represent the exceeding sinfulness that is in sin, the stain and spot whereof could be washt out with no other element but the blood of the Son of God; for as it was purchasing blood, so it was expiating blood. He hath loved us and washed us with his own blood. 1But though this be the purest ⟨p. 115⟩glass, yet God doth make frequent and great use of the third glass also: sc. afflictions and chastisements for sin to discover to the Children of promise, the greatness of that evil which is in sin. It is very notable how God brings the Israelites this glass in their affliction, and bids them as it were see their face in it. Jer. 2. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my feare is not in thee, saith the Lord God of Hosts. verse 19. In this glass he discovers to them a fourfold evil in sin.