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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. › PartTHE SOVLES BENEFIT from Vnion with CHRIST. › Part
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Secondly, again, God doth justify a poor sinner not for any thing he hath not for any thing he doth: mark that, the meaning is this; no privilege that a man doth enjoy, no part of wit, understanding or memory, or any thing that way: nay, I say more, there is no grace that a man hath, no duty that he can perform, for which as the material and formal cause of our justification, God doth pronounce any man to be righteous. If a man could weep out his eyes in sorrow, if a man ⟨p. 118⟩could hunger and thirst for Christ, more than for his daily bread, God would not justify a sinner for all these things; how doth God then justify a man? why he justifieth a sinner, for what Christ hath done for him, the surety hath paid it, and he accounts it ours: a man is justified by imputation only, not by any action: those are necessary concomitants, not real causes of our justification.
Secondly, againe, God doth justifie a poor sinner not for any thing he hath not for any thing he doth: marke that, the meaning is this; no privilege that a man doth enjoy, no part of wit, understanding or memory, or any thing that way: nay, I say more, there is no grace that a man hath, no dutie that he can performe, for which as the materiall and formall cause of our justification, God doth pronounce any man to bee righteous. If a man could weep out his eyes in sorrow, if a man ⟨p. 118⟩could hunger and thirst for Christ, more than for his daily bread, God would not justifie a sinner for all these things; how doth God then justifie a man? why he justifieth a sinner, for what Christ hath done for him, the surety hath paid it, and he accounts it ours: a man is justified by imputation onely, not by any action: those are necessary concomitants, not reall causes of our justification.
But you will say, is not a man justified by faith, and is not faith a grace, and hath not a man that ability wrought in him by God.