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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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3. 1Instruction is the Seal of God, which set upon Correction doth Seal up Adoption and Son-ship, to them that are exercised thereby: the children of affliction are, by Divine Teaching, sealed up the children of promise: If his children forsake my Law, speaking of Christs spiritual Seed, 2I will visit their transgression with a rod, &c. but my loving kindness will I not take away: I will visit them with the rod, that is, I will teach them with the rod, it shall be a rod of Instruction to them, that is the children's portion; 3If his children forsake me, &c. God deals with you as with Sons. Behold oh thou Christian soul, God hath done ⟨p. 241⟩that for thee in thy sufferings, which possibly he denied thee in thy prosperity, given thee an Evidence of thy Son-ship; he hath made thy suffering time thy sealing time; and hath allured thee and brought thee into the wilderness, 4and there hath spoken comfortably to thy heart. Thy Patmos hath been thy Paradise wherein he hath given thee his loves.
3. 1Instruction is the Seal of God, which set upon Correction doth Seal up Adoption and Son-ship, to them that are exercised thereby: the children of affliction are, by Divine Teaching, sealed up the children of promise: If his children forsake my Law, speaking of Christs spirituall Seed, 2I wil visit their transgression with a rod, &c. but my loving kindness wil I not take away: I wil visit them with the rod, that is, I will teach them with the rod, it shall be a rod of Instruction to them, that is the childrens portion; 3If his children forsake me, &c. God deals with you as with Sons. Behold oh thou Christian soul, God hath done