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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.
I come now to the second Caution.1
- 12 Caution, Labour to profit by other mens sufferings.2 Caution, Labor to profit by other mens sufferings.
If you would prevent affliction, labour to be instructed by the chastisements ⟨p. 227⟩which you see upon other men. God deals with his children as Tutors do with the children of Princes, whip them upon strangers backs. Thus God scourged Israel upon the back of the Nations round about: Zeph. 3.6. 1I have cut off the Nations, their towers are desolate, I made their streets waste that none passeth by, their Cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant: SHORT WORK! But their punishment, was Israels Caution; I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction: The Worlds judgments are the Churches instructions, and God looked that his people should have made that use of this practical doctrine; I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instructions: God had gracious ends in this dispensation; his severity to strangers, was his tender mercies towards Israel; he spared not the Nations, that he might have spared them, 2so their dwellings should not be cut off: God cut off the Nations, ⟨p. 228⟩vers. 6. that he might not cut off Israel; Behold (as the Apostle saith in another case, Rom. 11.22.) the goodness and severity of God; severity to the Nations, but goodness towards Israel; had they continued in his goodness, had they received instruction by their neighbours destruction. And as God punished Israel upon the Nations backs, so God punished Judah upon Israels back: