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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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In like manner set your hearts to the other Lessons which God teacheth by his chastisements.
Prize Creature-comforts more, and surfeit upon them less: be more thankful, and less sensual: especially prize a Gospel while ye have a Gospel; prize it by its worth, 1that you may not prize it by the want; prize it that you may keep it, lest you ⟨p. 222⟩prize it one day when you cannot recover it: that's a dreadful word, They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord, 2but they shall not FIND Him: 3And I will send a famine, not of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the Word of the Lord, &c. and they shall run to and fro, 4to seek the Word of the Lord, and Shall not FIND IT.
Prize Creature-comforts more, and surfeit upon them less: be more thankful, and less sensual: especially prize a Gospel while ye have a Gospel; prize it by its worth, 1that you may not prize it by the want; prize it that you may keep it, lest you ⟨p. 222⟩prize it one day when you cannot recover it: that's a dreadful word, They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord, 2but they shall not FIND Him: 3