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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.
1. Study these Lessons well while ye are in the School of the Word.
2. Labour to be instructed by the ⟨p. 216⟩chastisements and afflictions which you see upon other men.
2. Labor to be instructed by the ⟨p. 216⟩chastisements and afflictions which you see upon other men.
First, 1If you would prevent chastisement, study these and the like Lessons well, while ye are under the Teachings of the Word: Therefore doth God send us into the School of affliction, because we have been non-proficients in the School of the Gospel: because we will not hear the Word, we force God to turn us over to a severer Discipline, and to have our ears bored with affliction, and then saith God, now hear the rod, and who hath appointed it. O my beloved, labour, I beseech you, to profit much by the Teachings of Jesus Christ in the Gospel: set your hearts to all the truths and counsels of God revealed to you therein. 2The Gospel is the model or platform of sound words, able to make you sound Christians, wise to Salvation: O let your profiting be made known to all men. In special, set your hearts to those Instructions or Lessons propounded in the Doctrinal part of this subject; ⟨p. 217⟩