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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.
Briefly, In the Psalm the Prophet doth these three things.
1. He doth appeal to God for vengeance on the persecutors; describing them by their pride, v. 2. Profaneness, v. 3, 4. their intemperate virulency of speech, v. 4. Cruelty, and bloody practises, v. 5, 6. and lastly by their Atheistical security, v. 7. 2. He diverteth to the Enemies, endeavouring to convince them of the brutishness and folly of their Atheism, the Mother and Nurse of the other impieties charged on them, v. 8. and that by a threefold Argument. sc. 1. The power and skill of God in creating the hearing and seeing Organ in Man, v. 9. 2. The Sovereignty of God, and the Righteousness of his Judgments, which he executes in the world, v. 10. the former part. 3. His Wisdom and knowledge, in enduing man with such an excellent intellectual faculty, whereby even the creature it self is able to attain to admirable ⟨p. 3⟩degrees of knowledge, v. 10. latter part, and 11. 3. He labours to comfort the godly against all the pressures and persecutions under which they did groan and languish.
1. He doth appeal to God for vengeance on the persecutors; describing them by their pride, v. 2. Prophaneness, v. 3, 4. their intemperate virulency of speech, v. 4. Cruelty, and bloody practises, v. 5, 6. and lastly by their Atheisticall security, v. 7. 2. He diverteth to the Enemies, endeavouring to convince them of the bruitishness and folly of their Atheism, the Mother and Nurse of the other impieties charged on them, v. 8. and that by a threefold Argument. sc. 1. The power and skill of God in creating the hearing and seeing Organ in Man, v. 9. 2. The Soveraignty of God, and the Righteousness of his Judgments, which he executes in the world, v. 10. the former part. 3. His Wisdome and knowledge, in enduing man with such an excellent intellectual faculty, whereby even the creature it self is able to attain to admirable ⟨p. 3⟩degrees of knowledge, v. 10. latter part, and 11. 3. He labours to comfort the godly against all the pressures and persecutions under which they did groan and languish.