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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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yea hence it is, that when deliverance is nigh, they cannot believe it, though a Prophet of God, or an Angel from Heaven, should report it: Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion; for the time to favour her, yea the set-time is come, sings the Prophet Daniel, or some other that lived near the expiration of the seventy years captivity; and yet in the mean time the Jews reply as before, Our bones are dried, our hope is lost, we are cut off for our parts; q. d. tell not us of Gods arising, &c. we shall never see Zion again, we are but dead men: Observe it by the way, They that would not believe the captivity while it was in the threatening, Hab. 1.5. would not believe deliverance when it was in the promise; A just judgment upon them, that that they that would not believe God threatening, should not believe God promising. But that's ⟨p. 210⟩not all; Deliverance was so incredible after so long a captivity, that they could not believe it when they saw it: When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, 1we were like them that dream: They knew not (as it fared with Peter, half awake, and half asleep, Acts 12.9.) whether it was true, or whether they saw a vision only: Is this a real deliverance? or are we in a dream only? Our Saviour tells us, that when the Son of man shall come, 2(i. e. with particular deliverances to his Church) he shall not find faith on the earth: there will not be faith enough in the people of God to believe it, by reason of the long pressures and persecutions that have been upon them.
yea hence it is, that when deliverance is nigh, they cannot believe it, though a Prophet of God, or an Angel from Heaven, should report it: Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion; for the time to favor her, yea the set-time is come, sings the Prophet Daniel, or some other that lived neer the expiration of the seventy years captivity; and yet in the mean time the Jews reply as before, Our bones are dryed, our hope is lost, we are cut off for our parts; q. d. tell not us of Gods arising, &c. we shall never see Sion again, we are but dead men: Observe it by the way, They that would not believe the captivity while it was in the threatening,