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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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This is the excellency of the life of Faith, and this the people of God experience ⟨p. 68⟩by their sufferings, whereby God calls them out of the world, and taking them into himself, he doth reveal to them by degrees the mystery and privilege of living upon God, and upon God alone.
This is the excellency of the life of Faith, and this the people of God experience ⟨p. 68⟩by their sufferings, whereby God calls them out of the world, and taking them into himself, he doth reveal to them by degrees the mystery and priviledg of living upon God, and upon God alone.
In the next place, 1By afflictions and distresses God takes us off from self-confidence, and teacheth us to trust HIM more, and our selves less. This is the same with the former, save only that we speak now of trust in God, in opposition to confidence in our selves, and not in others; a distemper that prevails much in our natures: Ever since we rendered our selves able to do nothing, nothing but sin, we think our selves able to do any thing: We fancy to our selves a kind of omnipotence, when all our strength is to sit still: Naturally we are prone to entertain and nourish high presumptions, of our own strength, and of our own wisdom.
In the next place, 1By afflictions and distresses God takes us off from selfconfidence, and teacheth us to trust HIM more, and our selves less. This is the same with the former, save only that we speak now of trust in God, in opposition to confidence in our selves, and not in others; a distemper that prevails much in our natures: Ever since we rendred our selves able to do nothing, nothing but sin, we think our selves able to do any thing: We fancy to our selves a kind of omnipotence, when all our strength is to sit still: Naturally we are prone to entertain and nourish high presumptions, of our own strength, and of our own wisdom.