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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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And yet even in reference to these dispositions, which I call inseparable concomitants to Saving Teaching, I must add this one Caution in close of all; namely,
That allowance be made in case of Desertion: A child of God, for causes which here we cannot stand to mention, may be cast into so deep a state of desertion (for a time) that he may (as the Apostle speaks) forget ⟨p. 159⟩that he was purged from his old sins: 1A child of Light may walk in Darkness. And though there be no such deliquium gratiae, no such swoon in the new-man, wherein both habits and acts do cease, yet they may be so stupefied by the impressions of the present Temptation, as the poor Soul shall be sensible of neither, but reduced as it were into such a state, as when grace was but an embryo in the womb; that spiritual life shall be tantum non extinguit; there may be life, 2but no sense of that life.
That allowance be made in case of Desertion: A childe of God, for causes which here we cannot stand to mention, may be cast into so deep a state of desertion (for a time) that he may (as the Apostle speaks) forget ⟨p. 159⟩that he was purged from his old sins: 1A childe of Light may walk in Darkness. And though there be no such deliquium gratiae, no such swoon in the new-man, wherein both habits and acts do cease, yet they may be so stupified by the impressions of the present Temptation, as the poor Soul shall be sensible of neither, but reduc'd as it were into such a state, as when grace was but an embrie in the womb; that spiritual life shall be tantum non extinguit; there may be life, 2