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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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Sixthly, and lastly, 1A Teaching-affliction is the result of all the Offices of Jesus Christ: As a King he chastens; as a Prophet he teacheth; and as a Priest he hath purchased this grace of his Father, that the Rod might blossom; that Correction might be consecrated for Instruction unto the redeemed: Behold, a sanctified affliction is a cup whereinto Jesus Christ hath wrung and pressed the juice and virtue of all his Mediatory Offices; surely that must be a cup of generous and royal wine, like that in the Supper, a Cup of blessing ⟨p. 180⟩to the people of God.
Sixthly, and lastly, 1A Teaching-affliction is the result of all the Offices of Jesus Christ: As a King he chastens; as a Prophet he teacheth; and as a Priest he hath purchas'd this grace of his Father, that the Rod might blossom; that Correction might be consecrated for Instruction unto the redeemed: Behold, a sanctified affliction is a cup whereinto Jesus Christ hath wrung and prest the juice and vertue of all his Mediatory Offices; surely that must be a cup of generous and royal wine, like that in the Supper, a Cup of blessing ⟨p. 180⟩to the people of God.
- 16 Demonst. It is the result of all Christs Offices.
And thus I have finished the fourth particular propounded for the clearing and confirming of the Doctrine, sc. the Grounds and Demonstrations of the point; and with it the whole Doctrinal part of this great and blessed Truth, namely, That it is a blessed thing when CORRECTION and INSTRUCTION, WORD and ROD go together.