Elias_Amare
Puritan Board Freshman
Thomas Case, A Treatise on Afflictions, p. 27
"And what a gracious condescension is this in God, that when the soul by prosperity hath waxed wanton against Christ, and sported itself in unspouse-like familiarities with strangers, Jesus Christ should send it into the house of correction, and there by the discipline of the rod, correct and work out the wantonness of the flesh, and when he hath made it meet for his presence, take it into sweet and social communion with himself again! This is stupendous mercy and goodness, that cannot be paralleled in the whole creation!"
"And what a gracious condescension is this in God, that when the soul by prosperity hath waxed wanton against Christ, and sported itself in unspouse-like familiarities with strangers, Jesus Christ should send it into the house of correction, and there by the discipline of the rod, correct and work out the wantonness of the flesh, and when he hath made it meet for his presence, take it into sweet and social communion with himself again! This is stupendous mercy and goodness, that cannot be paralleled in the whole creation!"
