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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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Fourthly, 1Hence we may learn •ow to judg of our afflictions, and of •ur deliverances from them: and it may serve in stead of an Use of Examination: by this, I say, we may know, when our sufferings come in wrath, and when in love. You need not (as the Scripture speaks in another case) say, Who shall ascend up into Heaven, to look into Gods book of Life and Death? or who shall descend into the deep, the deep of Gods secret Counsels, to make report hereof unto us? But what saith the Scripture? the Word is nigh thee: the word of resolution, to this enquiry, it is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart; that •s to say, if thou canst evidence this to thine own soul. That Instruction •ath accompanied Correction, That God hath taught thee as well as chastened thee, thou art a blessed man, thou shalt be saved: thou hast the ⟨p. 192⟩Word of him who is the Author of blessedness, and BLESSEDNESS IT SELF; Blessed is the man whom the Lord chasteneth, and teacheth him out of his Law.
Fourthly, 1Hence we may learn •ow to judg of our afflictions, and of •ur deliverances from them: and it may serve in stead of an Ʋse of Ex•mination: by this, I say, we may know, when our sufferings come in wrath, and when in love. You need not (as the Scripture speaks in another case) say, Who shall ascend up into Heaven, to look into Gods book of Life and Death? or who shall descend into the deep, the deep of Gods secret Counsels, to make report hereof unto us? But what saith the Scripture? the Word is nigh thee: the word of resolution, to this enquiry, it is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart; that •s to say, if thou canst evidence this to thine own soul. That Instruction •ath accompanyed Correction, That God hath taught thee as well as chatened thee, thou art a blessed man, thou shalt be saved: thou hast the