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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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Secondly, 1When we say, that God teacheth whom he chasteneth, and teacheth them thus and thus; it is not to be understood as if he taught All alike: God hath several Forms in the School of Affliction, as well as in the School of the Word: There be fathers for experience, 2young men for strength, and babes ⟨p. 153⟩for the truth and being of Grace. And therefore if God have not taught thee so much as another, say not (here again) he hath not taught me at all: As one Star differeth from another in glory, so also is the School of Christ; it is free grace thou art a star, though thou art not a star of the first or second magnitude; that God hath let in some divine light, though not so much light as another may possibly have. In point of holy emulation we should look at degrees of Grace; but in point of thankfulness and comfort we should look at the truth and being of Grace.
- 12 Caution, nor all Alike.
- 21 Joh. 2.121 Ioh. 2.12
Thirdly, When we say, 1that God teacheth powerfully and abidingly, it is not to be understood as if these teachings did put the Soul into an immutable evenness of spirit, or freed it from all insurrections and disturbances from opposite corruption; such a frame of Soul is only the privilege of the glorified estate, wherein we shall see God face to face, and dwell in immutability it ⟨p. 154⟩