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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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A Teaching Chastisement is the fruit of Gods distinguishing Love. Chastisements (simply considered in themselves) lie in common to all the sons and daughters of Adam since the Fall; the fruit of that first apostasy, as well as of actual and personal departures from God: yea and deliverance also, lieth in common: Providence dispenseth Deliverance to the worst of men: The 106 Psalm is a Psalm of Promises, made to the Church; but the next Psalm, the 107, is a Psalm of Providential Dispensations to the World; and there, as you find affliction, so you may find deliverance also out of those afflictions, to be the portion of wicked men; Rebels, Vers. 11. ⟨p. 176⟩and Fools, Vers. 19, 20. (i. e. wicked fools, Solomons fools all along the Proverbs,) Seamen, Vers. 23. (for the most part, not the most religious order in the world;) all these are delivered out of their troubles: The worst of men, I say, share in this fruit of Gods Providential Goodness, Deliverance; but a teaching sanctified affliction is the privy seal of special love, 1My LOVING KINDNESS will I not take from him: whom the Lord LOVETH he chasteneth; 2that is to say, with a teaching chastisement: when Word and Rod meet together, when Correction and Instruction kiss each other, they are the fruit of paternal affection, and therefore must needs have a blessing bound up in them. 3As a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord chasteneth thee.
A Teaching Chastisement is the fruit of Gods distinguishing Love. Chastisements (simply considered in themselves) lie in common to all the sons and daughters of Adam since the Fall; the fruit of that first apostacy, as well as of actual and personal departures from God: yea and deliverance also, lieth in common: Providence dispenseth Deliverance to the worst of men: The 106 Psalm is a Psalm of Promises, made to the Church; but the next Psalm, the 107, is a Psalm of Providential Dispensations to the World; and there, as you finde affliction, so you may finde deliverance also out of those afflictions, to be the portion of wicked men; Rebels, Vers. 11. ⟨p. 176⟩