The souls exaltation A treatiseThe soules exaltation A treatise

Secondly, the Lord is said to make a change upon the creature, when he takes off some relations and respects which the creature had, and puts upon it some other respects, he doth not put them into the soul, but puts the soul into another room, and they are not naturally qualities, but only relations, which are imprinted upon the soul of man, and these are called moral, and of this kind is justification, as thus: Take a Prentice that is bound by covenant and Indenture for so many years, and he is now fallen into an ague, or a burning fever, he hath two relations: First, he is an apprentice: Secondly, he hath a weak sickly distempered body: now there may be a double change wrought in this man, according to this double disposition: first the master burns the Indentures, and gives him his time, and sets him free from his service, and he that was an apprentice before, is now a freeman, this is a moral change, for all this while he is as sick as he was before: but the former relation is quite gone, and the master cannot now command him to his service; now the fellow servants cannot domineer over him, because he is not now a servant: but now the wise Physician he comes, and he by good means helps the man of his disease, and brings him to a fair, sweet, and wholesome temper of body, and now there is a ⟨p. 141⟩change in the very nature of this servant; before he was distempered, but now he is well ordered; before hot, but now finely cool: here is something wrought in the nature of this man. Just so it is in this change of the soul: there is a moral change in justification, a man is bound to the Law, and liable to the penalty of it, and guilty of the breach of it: now God the Father in Jesus Christ, acquits a man of this guilt, and delivers him from this revenging power of the Law, and that's not all, but withal he puts holiness into the heart, and wisdom into the mind, and purity into the affections, & this is called a natural change, because there are new spiritual abilities put into the heart; not because of the nature of it, but because of the thing which it works: as to take the example of Scripture, 1 John 3.14. We are translated from death to life: As it is with a man taken prisoner in Turkey, or some other place, haply a Christian of England, he is accounted a Traitor there, and is condemned as a Traitor:

Secondly, the Lord is said to make a change upon the creature, when he takes off some relations and respects which the creature had, and puts upon it some other respects, hee doth not put them into the soule, but puts the soule into another roome, and they are not naturally qualities, but onely relations, which are imprinted upon the soule of man, and these are called morall, and of this kinde is justification, as thus: Take a Prentice that is bound by covenant and Indenture for so many yeeres, and he is now fallen into an ague, or a burning fever, hee hath two relations: First, he is an apprentice: Secondly, hee hath a weake sickly distempered body: now there may bee a double change wrought in this man, according to this double disposition: first the master burnes the Indentures, and gives him his time, and sets him free from his service, and hee that was an apprentice before, is now a freeman, this is a morall change, for all this while he is as sicke as he was before: but the former relation is quite gone, and the master cannot now command him to his service; now the fellow servants cannot dominere over him, because he is not now a servant: but now the wise Physitian he comes, and he by good means helps the man of his disease, and brings him to a faire, sweet, and wholsome temper of body, and now there is a