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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
Dedication: To my Reverend Friend, Mr Thomas Case, Minister of the Gospel, &c.
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To my Reverend Friend, Mr Thomas Case, Minister of the Gospel, &c.
Sir,
I Thank you for the favour you did me in affording me a sight of your Papers; I had heard much of your notions concerning afflictions, and therefore was very thirsty till you were pleased to give me to drink of the fountain: I can now say as that Queen, *The one half was not told me; fame came much short of taste: We ⟨image 3⟩are perfect in no Lessons so much as those into which God whippeth us; and cannot speak of any argument so warmly and feelingly, as when we speak out of present experience: To treat of afflictions when we our selves flourish and abound in ease and plenty, savoureth more of the Orator then the Preacher, the brain then the heart: Certainly guess and imagination cannot be so good a midwife to such conceptions as sense and feeling.
I Thank you for the favor you did me in affording me a sight of your Papers; I had heard much of your notions concerning afflictions, and therefore was very thirsty till you were pleased to give me to drink of the fountain: I can now say as that Queen, *The one half was not told me; fame came much short of taste: We