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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.
First, More frequently; Gods people are vessels full of the spirit of prayer, and affliction is a piercer, whereby God draws it out. For ⟨p. 32⟩my love they are my adversaries, but I give my self unto prayer. 1David was always a praying man, but now under persecution he did nothing else; I give my self unto prayer: as wicked men give themselves up to their wickedness, so David gave himself up to prayer, he made it his work. Hence you may observe that most of all the Psalms are nothing else almost but the runnings out of Davids spirit in prayer under variety of afflictions and persecutions; as his troubles were multiplied, so his prayers did multiply. The holy man was never in that condition wherein he could not pray, &c. Alas, it is sad to consider that in our peace and tranquility, we pray arbitrarily by fits and starts many times, we suffer every trifle to come and jostle out prayer; but in affliction God keeps us upon our knees, and (as it were) tieth the sacrifice to the horns of the altar.
First, More frequently; Gods people are vessels full of the spirit of prayer, and affliction is a piercer, whereby God draws it out. For ⟨p. 32⟩my love they are my adversaries, but I give my self unto prayer. 1David was always a praying man, but now under persecution he did nothing else; I give my self unto prayer: as wicked men give themselves up to their wickedness, so David gave himself up to prayer, he made it his work. Hence you may observe that most of all the Psalms are nothing else almost but the runnings out of Davids spirit in prayer under variety of afflictions and persecutions; as his troubles were multiplied, so his prayers did multiply. The holy man was never in that condition wherein he could not pray, &c. Alas, it is sad to consider that in our peace and tranquility, we pray arbitrarily by fits and starts many times, we suffer every trifle to come and justle out prayer; but in affliction God keeps us upon our knees, and (as it were) tyeth the sacrifice to the horns of the altar.
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