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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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To them that are come out of affliction and fiery trials: Sit down, Christian, and reflect upon thy self, turn in upon thine own heart, examine thy self; Have teachings accompanied chastisements? hath the rod budded? cast up thy accounts: What hast thou learned in the School of Affliction? Not to go over the larger Catechism of those twenty Lessons again, view the abbreviate; Hath God discovered to thee the sinfulness of sin, the emptiness of the creature, the fullness of Christ? Is no evil like to the evil of sin? *no good like to Jesus Christ? Is the world become an empty vanity, a mockery, a nothing in thine eyes? Canst thou say, it is good I have been afflicted? and canst ⟨p. 238⟩thou point out that good, and say, This I had, this I have got by my sufferings; I know divine Truth more inwardly, more clearly, more experimentally, more powerfully, more sweetly, then ever; it hath a more abiding impression upon my heart? I would speak a word, 1. To them that can evidence these teachings to their own Souls. 2. To them that cannot.
To them that are come out of affliction and fiery tryals: Sit down, Christian, and reflect upon thy self, turn in upon thine own heart, examine thy self; Have teachings accompanied chastisements? hath the rod budded? cast up thy accounts: What hast thou learn'd in the School of Affliction? Not to go over the larger Catechism of those twenty Lessons again, view the abbreviate; Hath God discovered to thee the sinfulness of sin, the emptiness of the creature, the fulness of Christ? Is no evil like to the evil of sin? *no good like to Iesus Christ? Is the world become an empty vanity, a mockery, a nothing in thine eyes? Canst thou say, it is good I have been afflicted? and canst ⟨p. 238⟩thou point out that good, and say, This I had, this I have got by my sufferings; I know divine Truth more inwardly, more clearly, more experimentally, more powerfully, more sweetly, then ever; it hath a more abiding impression upon my heart? I would speak a word, 1. To them that can evidence these teachings to their own Souls. 2. To them that cannot.