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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 fifth branch of Information may be to teach us thus much, sc. 1That they may be blessed whom the world accounts miserable: The World judgeth merely by outward appearances, and therefore may easily be mistaken: They see the chastisement which is upon the flesh, and thence conclude a man miserable; but they cannot discover that divine teaching which is upon the spirit, which truly rendereth him incomparably blessed. The men of the world are incompetent judges of the estate and condition of Gods Children: The ⟨p. 200⟩godly mans happiness or misery is not to be judged by the worlds sense and feeling, 2but by his own; it lieth inward (save only so far as by the fruits it is discernible) and the worlds faculty of judging is only outward, made up of sense and reason: therefore, said the Apostle, The spiritual man judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man: that is, he is able to judg of the condition of the men of the world, but the men of the world are not able to judg of his condition, because it is above their faculty: the natural man thinks the spiritual man, under affliction, to be miserable; but the spiritual man knows the natural man, in the midst of his greatest abundance and bravery, to be miserable indeed. Therefore may the Saints in their troubles think it, with Saint Paul, 3a very small thing to be judged of mans judgment: This is but *mans day of judging; so the word signifieth: Gods day is coming when things and persons shall be valued by another census, or rate. ⟨p. 201⟩Christ in his day shall judg not after the sight of the eyes, i.e. not as things appear to sense and reason; nor after the hearing of the ears; i. e. according to the report of the world: but with righteousness shall he judg; i. e. He shall judg of things and persons as they are, and not as they appear. Interim, this is also another comfort: We have the mind of Christ,