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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
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THE SOULS BENEFIT from Union with CHRIST.THE SOVLES BENEFIT from Vnion with CHRIST.
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and fourthly, he will quicken what he maintains; and fifthly, he will perfect what he quickens; and lastly, he will crown that he perfects, he will give you an immortal crown of glory. We have read now the feoffment of a faithful soul, and you see what you shall have from ⟨p. 81⟩the hand of the Lord Jesus, we should now come to the reasons of the point, but that time will prevent us, and we have had the pith of the point already, in opening the tenure of the conveyance of grace to the believing soul, we will therefore pass on to the use of the point.
and fourthly, he will quicken what hee maintains; and fiftly, hee will perfect what hee quickens; and lastly, he will crowne that he perfects, hee will give you an immortall crowne of glory. We have read now the feofment of a faithfull soule, and you see what you shall have from ⟨p. 81⟩the hand of the Lord Jesus, wee should now come to the reasons of the point, but that time will prevent us, and wee have had the pith of the point already, in opening the tenure of the conveyance of grace to the beleeving soule, we will therefore passe on to the use of the point.
Use. 1 Is it thus then? to us, saith the text, to us; who are those? I pray, inquire of it; look into the 26. verse, You know your calling, that is, those that are called, those that believe in the Lord Jesus Christ; to us, those are the people mentioned, those are the persons intended; therefore in the first place it is a matter of lamentation and complaint, which we shall in a word intimate, to those to whom it belongs, if all this good be appointed for all the servants of God, and only the servants of God, for the called, and none but the called, then it is a thunderbolt, able to break the heart, and sink the soul of every unbelieving creature under heaven, and make him shake at the misery of his condition, and the evil that shall betide him: you that are in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity, that have stood it out with Christ, and he could never prevail with you, but you would take up your own courses, and he hath come, and called, and knocked, will that proud heart never come? will that drunken wretch never be reformed? you that are such, whatever you be, I say, know this, and know it to your sorrow, and trouble, and vexation of spirit, you are shut out from sharing in, you are cut off from partaking of the riches of the grace, and the