A03599:618
The Christians two chief lessons viz. self-denial, and self-trial. As also the privilege of…The Christians tvvo chiefe lessons viz. selfe-deniall, and selfe-tryall. As also the priviledge of…
The Christians two chief lessons viz. self-denial, and self-trial. As also the privilege of adoption and trial thereof. In three treatises on the texts following: viz. Matt. 16.24. 2 Cor. 13.5. John 1.12,13. By T.H.The Christians tvvo chiefe lessons viz. selfe-deniall, and selfe-tryall. As also the priviledge of adoption and triall thereof. In three treatises on the texts following: viz. Matt. 16.24. 2 Cor. 13.5. Iohn 1.12,13. By T.H.
London: printed by T. Badger for P. Stephens and C. Meredith, 1640
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First, The ground of it, which is our union to Christ the natural Son of God. We are alive, saith the Apostle, to God in Jesus Christ our Lord, Rom. 6.11.1 Being grafted in him, Rom. 11.23. and so we become one with Christ, 1 Cor. 12.27. as therefore a scion taken out of one stock, and so inoculated into another, or as a child taken out of one family and translated into another, even so we are taken out of the household of Satan, and inserted into the family of God; yea into the mystical body of Christ, for the head and the body make but one Christ, Gal. 3.16.2 he saith not to the feeds, as speaking of many, but unto thy seed, as of one, which is Christ, and so he and the faithful make but one Christ, 1 Cor. 12.12.3 This was the end of his Incarnation, to make us the sons of God. The Son of God became the son of man, that we sons of men might become the sons of God, Gal. 4. 4, 5.4
First, The ground of it, which is our union to Christ the naturall Sonne of God. We are alive, saith the Apostle, to God in Iesus Christ our Lord, Rom. 6.11.1 Being grafted in him, Rom. 11.23. and so we become one with Christ,