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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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Consider,
1. That this is Gods design, 1that he might teach thee by his chastisements; and if thou crossest Gods design, God will cross thy design; if thou wilt not let God have his end in instruction, he will not let thee have thy end in enlargement: The only way to retard deliverance, is to make too much haste to be delivered; and he that believeth will not make haste.
1. That this is Gods design, 1that he might teach thee by his chastisements; and if thou crossest Gods design, God will cross thy design; if thou wilt not let God have his end in instruction, he will not let thee have thy end in enlargement: The only way to retard deliverance, is to make too much haste to be delivered; and he that beleeveth will not make haste.
- 11. If we cross Gods project, God will cross ours.
2. Consider, 1That bare deliverance is not the Blessing: I told you before, that deliverance alone is but the fruit of common bounty; Isle tell you more now: Deliverance alone may be the fruit of the Curse; a man may be delivered in wrath, and not in love; Deliverance from one affliction may but make way for another, for a greater; Affliction may return, like the unclean spirit, with seven more worse then it self: So God threatens an unteachable people; If by these things ye will not be reformed, but will walk contrary to me, cross my