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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Eighthly, 1It shows us the reason why God doth keep some of his people so long under the Discipline of the Rod. Truly God doth not only bring his children into the School of affliction, but many times keeps them long there: 2The rod of the wicked indeed shall not (ALWAYS) rest on the back of the righteous: ⟨p. 207⟩I, but it may lie long, for months, for years, for many years together; seventy years were the Jews in the house of Correction at Babylon; four hundred years in the brick-kills of Egypt: Story and experience will serve in instances without number. Hence you have the people of God so often at their How-longs in Scripture: Psal. 6.3. But thou O Lord, HOW LONG? Psal. 13.1, 2. HOW LONG wilt thou forget me O Lord for ever? HOW LONG wilt thou hide thy face from me? HOW LONG shall I take counsel in my Soul? HOW LONG shall mine Enemy be exalted over me? In this Psalm where my Text is, HOW LONG shall the wicked, HOW LONG shall the wicked triumph? twice How long, before he can vent his complaint; and yet again the third time, HOW LONG shall they utter and speak hard things? HOW LONG, cries Jeremiah, 3shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet? and Zechariah, 4O Lord ⟨p. 208⟩of Hosts, HOW LONG wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the Cities of Judah? The Souls under the Altar, Revel. 6.10. cry with a loud voice, i. e. in much anguish and agony, HOW LONG O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not avenge our blood on them that dwell on the Earth? Verily God doth keep his people (sometimes) so long under their pressures, that they begin at length even to give themselves up to despair, and to conclude they shall never see deliverance. Thus you find not only the common multitude of the Jews in the Babylonian captivity, concluding desperately, Our bones are dried,