The souls exaltation A treatiseThe soules exaltation A treatise

the text saith, Christ received the Spirit above measure, as if Christ would prevent the cavils of a poor creature, and pluck up a discouraged heart; when the sinner thinks, my sins are out of measure sinful, and my heart is out of measure hard; why think and remember, that in Christ there is mercy out of measure merciful, ⟨p. 68⟩and grace out of measure powerful, there thou shalt see bloody Manasseh, idolatrous Manasseh, abominable Manasseh, in the Lord Jesus he hath received the pardon of all his sins, and yet there is pardon enough for thee too: there thou shalt see Paul a persecutor, and the bloody jailer; there is that power in the Lord Jesus, that crushed the pride of the heart of Paul, and that brake the heart of the bloody jailer, that stood it out a long time, the earth shook, and the prison shook, and the doors flew open, he stood still all this while, at last the Lord made him shake and all, as well as the earth; why, and yet there is power enough for thee too; in Christ there is fullness without measure, take you may what you will, there is enough still for all; Ephes. 1 last verse, the text saith, that Christ is the head of all his church, and the church is his body, and what followeth? even The fullness of him that filleth all in all things, that is, he fills all his servants with all that grace, and mercy, and compassion they need, so that there is a fullness in the Lord Jesus, and there is enough to supply all the wants of a believing creature, and to relieve him in regard of all those necessities, that lye upon him; that is the first.

the text saith, Christ received the Spirit above measure, as if Christ would prevent the cavils of a poore creature, and pluck up a discouraged heart; when the sinner thinks, my sinnes are out of measure sinfull, and my heart is out of measure hard; why thinke and remember, that in Christ there is mercy out of measure mercifull, ⟨p. 68⟩and grace out of measure powerfull, there thou shalt see bloudy Manasses, idolatrous Manasses, abominable Manasses, in the Lord Jesus he hath received the pardon of all his sinnes, and yet there is pardon enough for thee too: there thou shalt see Paul a persecutor, and the bloudy jaylor; there is that power in the Lord Iesus, that crushed the pride of the heart of Paul, and that brake the heart of the bloudy jaylor, that stood it out a long time, the earth shooke, and the prison shooke, and the doores flew open, hee stood still all this while, at last the Lord made him shake and all, as well as the earth; why, and yet there is power enough for thee too; in Christ there is fulnesse without measure, take you may what you will, there is enough still for all;