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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.
In a word, brethren, study, and study throughly, the Sinfulness of Sin. Emptiness of the Creature. Fullness of Christ.
In a word, brethren, study, and study throughly, the Sinfulness of Sin. Emptiness of the Creature. Fulness of Christ.
And in all these, and the like Lessons, labour for an Inward Convincing Experimental Powerful Sweet Abiding Teaching.
And in all these, and the like Lessons, labor for an Inward Convincing Experimental Powerful Sweet Abiding Teaching.
Content not your selves, Christians, with a general, slight, superficial, unsavoury, powerless, flitting Knowledge: rest not in notions; be not satisfied with expressions without ⟨p. 226⟩impressions; nor with impressions, that are not abiding impressions; that are like figures written in the sand: this is the ruin of professors. Those professors, their names shall be written in the dust, who write divine instructions in the dust: at least, if God have a mind to do you good, expect that he should send you into the house of Correction, and there teach you with scourges, and write his Instructions in your blood.
Content not your selves, Christians, with a general, slight, superficial, unsavory, powerless, flitting Knowledg: rest not in notions; be not satisfied with expressions without ⟨p. 226⟩impressions; nor with impressions, that are not abiding impressions; that are like figures written in the sand: this is the ruine of professors. Those professors, their names shall be written in the dust, who write divine instructions in the dust: at least, if God have a minde to do you good, expect that he should send you into the house of Correction, and there teach you with scourges, and write his Instructions in your blood.