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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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Doctrine. Justification is an act of God the Father, upon the believer.
Doctrine. Iustification is an act of God the Father, upon the beleever.
It is an act that passeth from God the Father, upon the believer. For the proof of this point there are three verses in the same Chapter, which make it good, the 18, 19, 20. verses, and so on to the end of the Text; in the 18. verse, he saith, All things are of God, which hath reconciled us unto himself by Jesus Christ; of God, that is, of God the Father, and yet more plainly in the 19. verse, God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their sins to them. Now what is meant by God in these two verses? the old rule of Divines is this; that wheresoever you find the Name of God put in opposition to ⟨p. 134⟩Jesus Christ, it must not be taken essentially, but personally, for the Father. For it were almost an absurd thing, to say that Christ were in Christ reconciling the world unto himself: therefore the Apostle implies thus much; God the Father was in Christ reconciling, and God the Father by Christ, reconciled the world unto himself: and then in the 20. and 21. verses, he saith, Now then we are Ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you through us; we pray you in Christs stead that ye be reconciled to God, that is, to God the Father; for he hath made him sin for us, which knew no sin: and another proof is in the 3. of Saint John, 14.15. and so to the end of the 18. verse: it is an observation of wise Divines, and good Interpreters, when our Saviour comes to trade with Nicodemus about eternal life, he doth not only content himself to speak of himself alone, as he was Christ the Redeemer of the world, but he sets him yet a little higher in the 14. verse, he saith, As Moses lifted up the brazen Serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life: A man would have thought that this had been enough, but he stays not here, but he puts him one pin above all these, and saith, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son for it, that whosoever believeth on him might not perish, but have everlasting life: as if he had said, there is not only a Christ prepared and sent, but God the Father also loved the world: here is the highest stair to stay up the heart, so