Elias_Amare
Puritan Board Freshman
Thomas Case, A Treatise on Afflictions, p. 93-94
"A teaching affliction is the result of all the offices of Jesus Christ—As a king he chastens; as a prophet he teacheth; and as a priest he hath purchased this grace of his Father, that the rod might blossom; that correction might be consecrated for instruction unto the redeemed. Behold, a sanctified Affliction is a cup whereinto Jesus Christ hath wrung and prest the juice and virtue of all his mediatory offices; surely that must be a cup of generous and royal wine, like that in the supper, a cup of blessing to the people of God."
"A teaching affliction is the result of all the offices of Jesus Christ—As a king he chastens; as a prophet he teacheth; and as a priest he hath purchased this grace of his Father, that the rod might blossom; that correction might be consecrated for instruction unto the redeemed. Behold, a sanctified Affliction is a cup whereinto Jesus Christ hath wrung and prest the juice and virtue of all his mediatory offices; surely that must be a cup of generous and royal wine, like that in the supper, a cup of blessing to the people of God."
