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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.
1. It will help your memories: As the Rod repeateth the Word, so the Word will repeat the instructions of the Rod; the Gospel will bring to remembrance what you have learned in the School of Affliction.
2. It will quicken affection: To hear that repeated by the still sweet voice of the Gospel, which before God taught you in the voice of thunder, this cannot but affect, and make you bespeak the Gospel, as once the Israelites did Moses, 1Speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee, and we will hear it and do it, but let us not hear ⟨p. 261⟩the voice of God any more, that terrible voice of Judgment, lest we dye. And certainly God will take it was well at your hands as he did at Israels, and will answer in some such language, I have heard the voice of this people, they have well said all that they have spoken: O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, 2and keep my Commandments, that it might be well with them, and that I might not bring upon them such evils as I have done, any more.
2. It will quicken affection: To hear that repeated by the still sweet voyce of the Gospel, which before God taught you in the voyce of thunder, this cannot but affect, and make you bespeak the Gospel, as once the Israelites did Moses, 1Speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee, and we will hear it and do it, but let us not hear ⟨p. 261⟩the voyce of God any more, that terrible voyce of Judgment, lest we dye. And certainly God will take it was well at your hands as he did at Israels, and will answer in some such language, I have heard the voyce of this people, they have well said all that they have spoken: O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me,