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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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I shall take chastisements here in the utmost latitude, for all kinds and degrees of sufferings, whether from God, or Man, or Satan; whether sufferings for Sin, or sufferings for Righteousness sake. And for the Doctrinal part of the Point, I shall endeavour these four things.
I shall take chastisements here in the utmost latitude, for all kindes and degrees of sufferings, whether from God, or Man, or Satan; whether sufferings for Sin, or sufferings for Righteousness sake. And for the Doctrinal part of the Point, I shall endeavor these four things.
1. To show you what those Lessons are which God doth teach his people by his chastisements. 2. What the Nature and Properties of Divine Teachings are. 3. In what tendency Correction lieth in Order unto these teachings: or, what Use God doth make of Affliction for the carrying on of the Work of instruction in the hearts of his People. 4. I shall lay down the Grounds and Demonstrations of the Point: or Considerations to evince the happiness of that man whom God is pleased to teach by his Corrections.
1. To shew you what those Lessons are which God doth teach his people by his chastisements. 2. What the Nature and Properties of Divine Teachings are. 3. In what tendency Correction lyeth in Order unto these teachings: or, what Use God doth make of Affliction for the carrying on of the Work of instruction in the hearts of his People. 4. I shall lay down the Grounds and Demonstrations of the Point: or Considerations to evince the happiness of that man whom God is pleased to teach by his Corrections.
I begin with the Lessons which God doth usually teach his people in a suffering condition. Amongst many which may fall within the experience of the suffering Saints of God, I shall observe unto you twenty several Lessons,