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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.
Teach me, O Lord, 1the way of thy Statutes, and I will keep it unto the end: He dares promise Perseverance, if God will undertake Instruction: and accordingly he made good his promise, upon this very account; I have not departed from thy Judgments, for thou hast taught me: Observe it; He doth not say, I will keep thy Statutes; but he can say, and that many years after, I have kept thy Statutes. Many will say in their affliction, I will keep thy Statutes; promise fair, if God will but deliver them: but how few can say with David, I have ⟨p. 150⟩kept, I have not departed from thy Judgments! Of old time, saith God, I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds, and thou saidst, I WILL NOT transgress; 2when upon every high hill, and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. Good words in trouble, but poor performance out of trouble: no sooner out of affliction, but they fall again to their old trade of spiritual Adultery against God: no sooner their old hearts and their old temptations meet, but they close, and embrace one another; they started aside like a broken bow: I, but David was taught of God, and therefore he is as careful to make good his vows, as to make good vows; I will pay thee my vows, which my lips have uttered, 3and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble. The after part of Davids life was much more severe and exact then the former: I have not departed from thy Judgments, for thou hast taught me.
Teach me, O Lord, 1the way of thy Statutes, and I will keep it unto the end: He dares promise Perseverance, if God will undertake Instruction: and accordingly he made good his promise, upon this very account; I have not departed from thy Judgments, for thou hast taught me: Observe it; He doth not say, I will keep thy Statutes; but he can say, and that many years after, I have kept thy Statutes. Many will say in their affliction, I will keep thy Statutes; promise fair, if God will but deliver them: but how few can say with David, I have ⟨p. 150⟩