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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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And then secondly, As God teacheth us to prize our mercies, so by affliction also he doth teach us moderation in the use of them, while we value not to surfeit. And indeed it is the inordinate use of outward comforts which renders us unfit to prize them; we lose our esteem of mercies in excess: 1Surfeits do usually render those things nauseous, which formerly have been our delicacies: By our excesses in Creature enjoyments, Reason is drowned in sense, Judgment extinguished in appetite, ⟨p. 18⟩and the affections being blunted by commonness of exercise, even pleasures themselves become a burden. Surely the excessive letting out of our selves to sensual fruitions, is both a sin and a punishment, while thereby we lose both the creature, and God, and our selves at once.
And then secondly, As God teacheth us to prize our mercies, so by affliction also he doth teach us moderation in the use of them, while we value not to surfeit. And indeed it is the inordinate use of outward comforts which renders us unfit to prize them; we lose our esteem of mercies in excess: 1Surfeits do usually render those things nauseous, which formerly have been our delicacies: By our excesses in Creature enjoyments, Reason is drown'd in sense, Judgment extinguisht in appetite, ⟨p. 18⟩and the affections being blunted by commonness of exercise, even pleasures themselves become a burden. Surely the excessive letting out of our selves to sensual fruitions, is both a sin and a punishment, while thereby we lose both the creature, and God, and our selves at once.
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