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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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Yes: but mark I beseech you; though the Scripture saith, Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, Answ. it doth not say, Whomsoever the Lord chasteneth he loveth: Though it saith, He scourgeth every son whom he receiveth, it doth not say, whomsoever he scourgeth he receiveth him as a son: Christ saith, As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; but he saith not, As many as I rebuke and chasten, I love. These Scriptures include children, but they do not exclude bastards: they tie chastening to sonship, but not sonship to chastening: the sons are chastened; but all the chastened are not, therefore, sons: the beloved are rebuked, but ⟨p. 184⟩all that are rebuked are not, consequently, beloved.
Yes: but mark I beseech you; though the Scripture saith, Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, Answ. it doth not say, Whomsoever the Lord chasteneth he loveth: Though it saith, He scourgeth every son whom he receiveth, it doth not say, whomsoever he scourgeth he receiveth him as a son: Christ saith, As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; but he saith not, As many as I rebuke and chasten, I love. These Scriptures include children, but they do not exclude bastards: they tye chastening to sonship, but not sonship to chastening: the sons are chastened; but all the chastened are not, therefore, sons: the beloved are rebuked, but ⟨p. 184⟩all that are rebuked are not, consequently, beloved.
But that place in Job 5.17. seems to say as much, Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth.
It is true; but one Scripture must interpret another; David must expound Eliphaz: Happy is the man whom God correcteth, i. e. when instruction goeth along with correction, when chastisement and teaching accompany one another: Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy Law. The Scripture doth not usually give things their names, but when they are made up of all their integrals: Who so fendeth a wife, findeth a good thing,