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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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3. Affliction makes them relish ⟨p. 38⟩the Word more sweetly. In prosperity many times we suffer the luscious contentments of the world so to distemper our palates that we cannot relish the Word, taste no more sweetness in it then in the white of an egg, as Job speaks in another case: but when God hath kept them for weeks, & months, and years it may be, fasting from the worlds dainties, when they are throughly hunger-bitten in the creature; then, How sweet are thy words to my taste! 1sweeter then honey to my mouth: They are the words which David spake in his affliction, witness Vers. 23. cum 24. Princes did sit and speak against me, but thy servant did meditate in thy Statutes: and what follows? thy Testimonies are my delight. And vers. 161. with 162. Princes have persecuted me without a cause, &c. I rejoice at thy Word as one that findeth great spoil. The Rod did sweeten the Word: It is my delight, my joy, a nest of sweetnesses. 2The full Soul loatheth the Honey-comb: ⟨p. 39⟩When we are filled with Creaturecomforts, we nauseate many times the very Word it self, which is sweeter then the honey or honeycomb: but to the hungry Soul every bitter thing is sweet. Let God famish the world round about us, then how cordial is Scripture consolation? How precious are the Promises! Oh, said a gracious woman reduced to great straits, I have made many a meals meat upon the Promises when I have wanted bread.
3. Affliction makes them relish ⟨p. 38⟩the Word more sweetly. In prosperity many times we suffer the luscious contentments of the world so to distemper our palates that we cannot relish the Word, taste no more sweetness in it then in the white of an egg, as Job speaks in another case: but when God hath kept them for weeks, & months, and years it may be, fasting from the worlds dainties, when they are throughly hunger-bitten in the creature; then, How sweet are thy words to my taste! 1