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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.
I had fresh diet every day, not only for necessity, but for delight, while other precious servants of God want their necessary bread, lie starving in the doleful places of their sorrowful restraint, and would be glad to eat bread that falls into the very loathsome excrements of Nature, and perhaps (for extremity of hunger) never stand to wipe it; possibly, forced to rake dead and stinking carcasses out of their graves for their sorrowful food, to eat the fruit of their own loins, yea to feed on their own dung, and drink their own piss, &c. Oh shall not my bowels yearn, and my compassions be rolled within me, towards such Objects of misery and compassion?
I had fresh dyet every day, not only for necessity, but for delight, while other precious servants of God want their necessary bread, lie starving in the doleful places of their sorrowful restraint, and would be glad to eat bread that falls into the very loathsom excrements of Nature, and perhaps (for extremity of hunger) never stand to wipe it; possibly, forced to rake dead and stinking carkasses out of their graves for their sorrowful food, to eat the fruit of their own loyns, yea to feed on their own dung, and drink their own piss, &c. Oh shall not my bowels yern, and my compassions be rouled within me, towards such Objects of misery and compassion?
Truly Brethren, we see it daily in ⟨p. 11⟩case of the Stone, Toothache, Gout, Strangury, and the like evils, how experience doth melt the heart into tears of sympathy and fellow-feeling, while strangers to such sufferings stand wondering at, and almost deriding the heart-breaking laments of poor wretches. Brethren, that you may not wonder at this, consider I beseech you what the Apostle speaks of Christ himself: 1It behoved him in all things to be made like unto his Brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high Priest in things pertaining to God. And again, 2