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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81235	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.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.	1652 (1652)	Wing C824; Thomason E1329_1; ESTC R209098	113,561	301

later the convinced soul sees sin a greater evil then affliction whatever it be and now as it were forgetting the affliction begins to mourn only for sin Iob. 7.20 crying out with holy Job in the dust I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men he saith not my substance is spoiled my Children destroyed my body is become a Spittle of loathsom Diseases and my self a terror to my self and standers by what wilt thou do unto me O thou preserver of men but I have sinned what shall I do unto thee c. Affliction led him to sin Correction was made conviction and sin now lyeth heavier upon him then all his sufferings This is the first comprehensive Lesson The second followeth sc 2. Comprehensive Lesson The emptiness of the Creature In our prosperity we stick in the Creature The emptiness of the world and dote upon the Creature the things and persons in this present world as if there our happiness and comfort were bound up but in the day of adversity God convinceth us of our mistakes by causing us to see the emptiness and vanity of all sublunary contentments we begin to find the world to be but guilded emptiness a meer nothing Then ask the soul what it thinks of the World and all the elements thereof the lusts of the flesh the lusts of the eyes and the pride of life as the Apostle sorts them which formerly did so glitter in its eyes Isa 40.6 and the answer will be with the Prophet all flesh is grass and all the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field vanity of vanities all is vanity The afflicteth soul saith of all Creature-excellency It is not it looks upon them as so many non-entities Prov. 23 5 so many Nots Not that which it seems Not that which is promiseth Not that which we expect and flatter our selves with Riches profit not in the day of wrath Prov. 11 4 Whatsoever it is that a man makes his riches whether friend or wealth or parts or Creature-interest whatsoever they profit not i. e. they cannot deliver out of the hands either of death or judgment And besides the soul finds by experience the unsutableness and dissatisfaction that is in all these seen things that there is no proportion between an invisible soul and visible comforts Fulgentins triumphos Romanos cum spectarit appellavit vanitem Author vitae apud Sur. procop l. 2. de bello Vand. between an immortal soul and perishing contentments between a spiritual being and an earthly portion that the winde which a man takes in by gaping will as soon fill an hungry belly as Creature-comforts will satisfie the Spirit In the hour of temptation the soul says miserable comforters are ye all Physicians of no value upon which a man may bestow all that he hath in expectation of a cure and find himself no whit better but rather worse surely the world in all its bravery is to the afflicted soul no better then the Cities which Solomon gave to Hiram which he called Cabul that is to say displeasing or dirty 1 King 9.13 the day of affliction is one of those days wherein men cast away their Idols of silver and their Idols of Gold Isa 2.20 which they made each one for himself to worship Abite hinc Abite Ion ge Phil Morn to the Moles and to the Bats and saith unto them with indignation Get ye hence 3. 3 Summary Lesson Fulness of Christ And lastly in the day of affliction God discovers to the soul the fulness of Jesus Christ There is an infinite fulness in Jesus Christ It pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell Colos 1.19 The Covenant of grace is suted to all the exigencies and indigencies of a poor undone convinced sinner 2 Sam. 23.5 it is ordered in all things In opposition to the power of corruption in the heart I will put saith God my Law in their inward parts Ier. 31 33 34. c. In opposition to error and ignorance in the understanding they shall all know me c. In opposition to Guilt I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sin no more And the Offices of Jesus Christ are suted to all the branches of the Covenant In order to the first branch I will write my Law in their hearts c. Behold Jesus Christ is a King In order to the second they shall all know me c. behold Jesus Christ is a Prophet and in order to the third I will forgive their iniquities behold Jesus Christ is a Priest The Offices of Christ fill and execute the Covenant of grace and the fulnes of God fills acts the Offices of Jesus Christ the Power of God and the fulness of Power his Kingly Office The wisdom of God and the fulness of wisdom his prophetical Office The Righteousness of God and the fulness of Righteousness Psal 45.7 his priestly Office this is that which the Psalmist celebrateth in that Song of Loves God hath anointed thee with the Oyl of gladnes ABOVE TH● FELLOWS never King was anointed with such power never Prophet with such wisdom never Priest with such Grace and Righteousness they had their stinted proportions but God gave not the spirit by measure unto HIM Ioh. 3 34. Colos 2 9 In him dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily It is not less then an infinite fulness which fills Jesus Christ as Mediator that we of his fulness might receive grace for grace But we are not always in a capacity either to receive or to see that fulness And the reason is because in our prosperity we fill our selves so with the World Intus eaistens prohibet ●lienum covenda sunt isla●b lectamenta tanquam laquei et plagae c. Lactan. divin Inst l. 6. c. 21. Isa 53 2. with the pleasures and profits of the World that it fares with Christ now as it did when he was born there is no room for him in the Inn while the World glitters in our eyes with her painted gaudery he hath no form nor COMLINES and when we see him there is no beauty that we should desire him we are very prone to love the World for the World terminate our affections in the Creature and do not use terrene comforts in that way Minus te amat Domine qui at liquid amat quod non preter te amat In licitis perimus engies and to that end that we might thereby be the more fitted to walk with God and when our desires are such the more they are the lefs are our delights in Jesus Christ this is our sin and folly that we do not fear the unlawful use of unlawful things nor see where the snare lieth to inveagle those affections to the Creature which are only due to God himself and a great reproach it is to Jesus Christ But now when God spreads

my vows which my lips have uttered and my mouth hath spoken when I was in trouble Lord through grace assisting I will be as ready to pay my vows now I am well as I was to make vows when I was sick c. Psa 56.12 THY VOVVS are upon me I will render praises unto thee When you have made good Vows be as careful to make good your Vows unto the Lord Vow Psa 76.11 and PAY unto the Lord your God In the fifth place 5 Means Attend upon the Word If you would preserve the teachings of God upon thy heart attend constantly and conscionably upon the Ministry of the Word The truth is the Word and the Rod teach the same Lessons The Rod many times is but the Words REMEMBRANCER And therefore as the Rod quickens the Word so the Word back again will revive and sanctifie the teachings of the Rod They mutually help to set one another with deeper impressions And therefore hear WISDOM watching dayly at her gates Prov. 8.34 waiting at the posts of her doors if thou wouldst be blessed It will be of a twofold advantage 1. It will help your memories As the Rod repeateth the Word so the Word will repeat the instructions of the Rod the Gospel will bring to remembrance what you have learned in the School of Affliction 2. It will quicken affection To hear that repeated by the still sweet voyce of the Gospel which before God taught you in the voyce of thunder this cannot but affect and make you bespeak the Gospel as once the Israelites did Moses Deut. 5 25 26 Speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee and we will hear it and do it but let us not hear the voyce of God any more that terrible voyce of Judgment lest we dye And certainly God will take it was well at your hands as he did at Israels and will answer in some such language I have heard the voyce of this people they have well said all that they have spoken O that there were such an heart in them that they would fear me Verse 29. and keep my Commandments that it might be well with them and that I might not bring upon them such evils as I have done any more 6. 6 Means Feed a good frame of heart Be often feeding that frame of heart which God hath taught thee into do by it as thou dayly beggest God would do by thee Give it day by day its dayly bread Meditations suitable to the nature of that grace which thou wouldst maintain threatenings promises truths Scripture-considerations agreeable to the Lesson Take heed of feeding corruption with thoughts of the sweetness that is in sin Take heed of starving grace by withdrawing from it suitable aliment You will require the blood of your Infants that are starved at the Nurses hands Will not God be much more jealous over the births and issues of his own Spirit Meditate much upon the Sinfulness of Sin the Emptiness of the Creature the Fulness of Christ the exquisiteness of his Sufferings the severity of the last Judgment the torments of Hell the Joys of Heaven the infinite Perfections of the Divine Nature Me litatio q. mentas dictatio and the horror of Eternity Rich in Meditation and rich in grace 7. 7 Help And lastly Be much in prayer As it was not enough for God to make the first Creation but he must uphold it by the word of his power Heb. 1.3 or else it would quickly have returned into its first Nothing So it is with the second Creation Hebr. 12.3 Christ is the Finisher as well as the Author of grace Phil. 1. He that hath begun a good work in you must perfect it Stability onely comes from the unchangeable God and therefore pray that God would put of his unchangeableness upon you Pray as Luther was wont to pray Act. Mon fol. 777. Confirm O Lord in us what thou hast wrought and perfect the work thou hast begun in us to thy Glory so be it which he seems to have taken out of Psal 68.28 Strengthen O God that which thou hast wrought in us Pray that prayer which David prayed over that liberal frame of heart which God had formed in his people for the service of the Temple O LORD God of Abraham 1 Chron. 29 18. and Isaac and Jacob our Fathers KEEP THIS FOR EVER in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people and PREPARE their heart unto thee or * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 STABLISH their heart Oh be earnest with God for stability of heart Hosea 6.4 that thy goodness may not be as a morning cloud and as the early dew but that it may in some proportion resemble the Author of it and be Yesterday Heb. 13.8 and to day and the same for ever In a word By all these means and helps and what other God hath sanctified for this gracious end labor Christians to be such out of your afflictions Possum ergo quod pluribus verbis pluribus eliam voluminibus philosophi docere conantur ipse breviter tibi mihique precipere ut tales esse sani perseveremus quales nos futuros profitemur infirmi Plin. ep 26 l. 7. ad max as you promised God and your selves to be when you were in that neither God nor your own Souls may have cause to repent of your sufferings that the fruit of chastening may be † 2 Cor 7 Repentance never to be unrepented of i.e. * Marbury of Repent 3 Duty Pray for the afflicted never to fall back again Having in your troubles repented of your sins take heed when you are delivered that you repent not of your repentance and he that doth not repent of his repentance now shall never have cause to repent for his repentance hereafter And thus I have done with the second Duty of those who through grace do find they have been taught by affliction I come now to the Third Duty Pray for the afflicted and when you pray say Lord teach them as well as correct them that they may be blessed O pray thus for ENGLAND she hath been a long time sorely chastised of the Lord and yet hath been all this while like a Bullock unaccustomed to the yoke O pray Turn us Lord and we shall be turned thou art the Lord our God Pray that God would teach ENGLAND in this day day of her visitation the things of her peace before they be hid from her eyes Luk. 19.42 Ier. 6.8 O pray that we may be INSTRUCTED lest Gods Soul depart from us If Correction go not forth into Instruction if England be not at length reformed by all the judgments of God upon her she hath seen her best days and may expect to be made desolate a Land not inhabited Ier. 6.8 there is no balm for our pain neither any Physician that