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The souls exaltation A treatiseThe soules exaltation A treatise
The souls exaltation A treatise containing the souls union with Christ, on I Cor. 6. 17. The souls benefit from union with Christ, on I Cor. 1. 30. The souls justification, on 2 Cor. 5. 21. By T.H.The soules exaltation A treatise containing the soules union with Christ, on I Cor. 6. 17. The soules benefit from vnion with Christ, on I Cor. 1. 30. The soules justification, on 2 Cor. 5. 21. By T.H.
London: printed by John Haviland for Andrew Crooke, 1638London: printed by Iohn Haviland for Andrew Crooke, 1638
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE SOULS BENEFIT from Union with CHRIST.THE SOVLES BENEFIT from Vnion with CHRIST.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now add the last thing, the text saith, Christ is made all this; the meaning is, Christ is appointed, and set apart, and fitted by God the Father to this purpose, to be wisdom and righteousness, ⟨p. 63⟩and to the poor, and the base, and despised, and to the things that are not, God hath set him apart to this purpose; as for the wise, and honourable, and mighty, they must shift for themselves, and trust to their own strength and sufficiency; but you that are poor and base, you that believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, he is made unto you, all that the soul can want, or the heart desire; so that now then we have done with the meaning of the words, and the opening thereof, so far as serveth our purpose, intending only to trade in the general, concerning the communion of the graft with the stock; we have showed you, how the soul is made one with the Lord Jesus, and how the soul is contracted to Christ; and now we shall come to show the feoffment that God hath promised, and we shall receive at his Majesties hand.
Now adde the last thing, the text saith, Christ is made all this; the meaning is, Christ is appointed, and set apart, and fitted by God the Father to this purpose, to be wisdome and righteousnesse, ⟨p. 63⟩and to the poore, and the base, and despised, and to the things that are not, God hath set him apart to this purpose; as for the wise, and honourable, and mighty, they must shift for themselves, and trust to their owne strength and sufficiencie; but you that are poore and base, you that beleeve in the Lord Jesus Christ, hee is made unto you, all that the soule can want, or the heart desire; so that now then we have done with the meaning of the words, and the opening thereof, so farre as serveth our purpose, intending only to trade in the generall, concerning the communion of the graft with the stock; wee have shewed you, how the soule is made one with the Lord Jesus, and how the soule is contracted to Christ; and now wee shall come to shew the feofment that God hath promised, and wee shall receive at his Majesties hand.