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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.
At first, chastisements seem very bitter, but afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. The fruit of patience is not found at the first brunt, but after we are well exercised and acquainted with a suffering condition: affliction is the true moly, though the root be bitter, yet the fruit is sweet; there is meat in the eater, out of the strong comes sweetness: and then when the Soul begins to taste the sweet fruit which grows upon that bitter root, it says with the Church in the Lamentations, 1It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the Salvation of the Lord; it is good that a man should bear the yoke in his youth: i. e. I shall not be a loser by my sufferings, I see the fruit will abundantly compensate the smart of a suffering condition.
At first, chastisements seem very bitter, but afterwards it yeeldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. The fruit of patience is not found at the first brunt, but after we are well exercised and acquainted with a suffering condition: affliction is the true moly, though the root be bitter, yet the fruit is sweet; there is meat in the eater, out of the strong comes sweetness: and then when the Soul begins to taste the sweet fruit which grows upon that bitter root, it says with the Church in the Lamentations, 1It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the Salvation of the Lord; it is good that a man should bear the yoke in his youth: i. e. I shall not be a loser by my sufferings, I see the fruit will abundantly compensate the smart of a suffering condition.
Thus, I say, one way or other, God works his children into a sweet ⟨p. 23⟩