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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.
And besides all this, in the hour of temptation, God brings old sins to remembrance. We are verily guilty concerning our brother could Josephs brethren say, 1twenty years after they had sold him for a slave, when they were in danger to be questioned for their lives (as they feared:) and thus when the Israelites cry to God in their sore distress for rescue and deliverance, God puts them in mind of their old Apostasies: Ye have forsaken me and served other gods, &c. 2go and cry to the gods whom ye have chosen. Suffering times are times of bringing sin to mind: 3If they bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives: Heb. If they bring back to heart. Captivity is a time of turning in upon our selves, ⟨p. 30⟩and bringing back to heart our doings which have not been good in Gods sight: Thus David under the rod could call himself to account, I thought on my ways, 4and turned my feet, &c.
And besides all this, in the hour of temptation, God brings old sins to remembrance. We are verily guilty concerning our brother could Iosephs brethren say, 1twenty yeers after they had sold him for a slave, when they were in danger to be questioned for their lives (as they feared:) and thus when the Israelites cry to God in their sore distress for rescue and deliverance, God puts them in minde of their old Apostacies: Ye have forsaken me and served other gods, &c. 2go and cry to the gods whom ye have chosen. Suffering times are times of bringing sin to minde: 3If they bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives: Heb. If they bring back to heart. Captivity is a time of turning in upon our selves, ⟨p. 30⟩