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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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Answer. The reasons of the question are these, we must understand that the actions of God are of two sorts.
First, there are some actions which do remain in God, which are confined within the compass of his own Counsel, and go no further, and they are immanent actions, they stay in God and go no further. A man may conceive in his mind what he resolves to do in his heart; whether he will do such a thing or no, and no man can tell what he intends to do but himself; but if a man will practise answerably according to his purpose, then he doth express the work outwardly, which he intended inwardly, and now he works upon the creature, and makes it to receive some impression of that good which he kept secretly in himself. There are some actions which remain in God, as the decrees and purposes of God, before the foundation of the world, and they ⟨p. 139⟩are confined within the high Council table of Heaven, Father, Son, and holy Ghost, and these never appeared to the eye of the world.
First, there are some actions which doe remain in God, which are confined within the compasse of his owne Councell, and goe no further, and they are immanent actions, they stay in God and goe no further. A man may conceive in his mind what heresolves to doe in his heart; whether hee will doe such a thing or no, and no man can tell what he intends to doe but himselfe; but if a man will practise answerably according to his purpose, then he doth expresse the worke outwardly, which he intended inwardly, and now hee workes upon the creature, and makes it to receive some impression of that good which hee kept secretly in himselfe. There are some actions which remaine in God, as the decrees and purposes of God, before the foundation of the world, and they ⟨p. 139⟩are confined within the high Councell table of Heaven, Father, Sonne, and holy Ghost, and these never appeared to the eye of the world.