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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.
This is the second, 1and an happy Lesson, sc. to prize comforts more, and yet prey upon our comforts less.
- 13 Lesson, Self-denial.3 Lesson, Self-denyal.
A third Lesson, which God teacheth by his Chastisements, is, Self-denial and obediential submission to the will of God.
A third Lesson, which God teacheth by his Chastisements, is, Self-denyal and obediential submission to the will of God.
In our prosperity we are full of our own wills, and usually we give God counsel when God looks for obedience, as if we could tell God how it might have been better; and so we dispute our cross when we should take it up; but now ferendo ⟨p. 20⟩discimus perferre, by bearing a little we learn to bear more; 1the trial of our faith worketh patience: the more we suffer, the more God fits us to suffer: partly by working us off from our own wills: folly is bound up in the heart of Gods children, 2as well as our own; but the rod of correction driveth it far from them. God fetcheth out the stubbornness and perverseness of our spirits by the Discipline of the Rod: So that before he hath done with us, we have not a will to lift up against his will. And surely as we say to our children, Oh, it is a good rod, which breaks us of our stomachs. Partly by inuring us to the Cross: The Bullock unaccustomed to the yoke, is very impatient under the hand of the husbandman; but after she is inured to labour, she willingly puts her neck under the yoke: and so it is with Christians, after a while the yoke of affliction begins to be well settled, and by much bearing we learn to bear with quietness: A new Cart maketh a great noise and