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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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Fourthly, by this means, the debt on our sides being laid upon the Lord Jesus Christ, and his ⟨p. 133⟩righteousness being applied to us, God the Father acquits us, and pronounceth us righteous by a legal course of proceeding; as in these words, That we might be made the righteousness of God in him: such a righteousness as God the Father will work in us, and will accept of us. As when the wife is betrothed and married to a man, all her old debts are laid upon her husband, and the law meddles no more with her: and secondly, all his lands, at least the third part of them are made over to her. What she hath in point of debt is put over to him: so all our sins and debts of corruptions are laid upon Christ, and all the rich feoffments of grace and mercy in Christ, are made over to a believer, and hence a believer comes to be acquitted and justified before God. From the first part of this description, the point is this.
Fourthly, by this means, the debt on our sides being laid upon the Lord Iesus Christ, and his ⟨p. 133⟩righteousnesse being applied to us, God the Father acquits us, and pronounceth us righteous by a legall course of proceeding; as in these words, That we might bee made the righteousnesse of God in him: such a righteousnesse as God the Father will worke in us, and will accept of us. As when the wife is betrothed and married to a man, all her old debts are laid upon her husband, and the law meddles no more with her: and secondly, all his lands, at least the third part of them are made over to her. What shee hath in point of debt is put over to him: so all our sinnes and debts of corruptions are laid upon Christ, and all the rich fefments of grace and mercy in Christ, are made over to a beleever, and hence a beleever comes to be acquitted and justified before God. From the first part of this description, the point is this.
Doctrine. Justification is an act of God the Father, upon the believer.