The souls exaltation A treatiseThe soules exaltation A treatise

Use 1 The proper fruit of this Doctrine is this; Is it so, that justification is an act of God the Father upon the believer? then it is a ground of admirable comfort to bear up the heart of a poor sinner above all the accusations, and all the power and the policies of our enemies against us, or the intendments of the wicked to hurt us: remember but this, that God the Father justifies, and this will be a cordial to bear up the heart against whatsoever the world, or the devil, or the wicked shall lay to the charge of a believer: If thou art justified before Gods tribunal in Heaven, why shouldst thou care, or fear, or be troubled or disquieted, when thou art condemned by the wicked upon the earth? this justification on Gods part can wipe away and scatter all the clouds, and all the accusations on mans part: 1 Cor. 4.2.3. It is required of the dispensers, that every man be found faithful, but as for me, I pass very little to be judged by mans judgement: the word in the original is very excellent, I pass not to be judged by mans day; men have their days of meeting and of judging, and their days of rioting in the alehouse, and in the brothel-house, and there they can toss the names of Gods Servants up and down, and they sit upon their names, and lives, and liberties, and they raise what reports they will; these are the drunkards days, and the malicious mans days, there they sit and give their dooms what they ⟨p. 144⟩will do to such a Christian, and to such a Minister, but mark what Saint Paul saith, I pass not for mans days, it is no more to me than the dust of the balance, or the drop of the bucket; but he alludes to another day, to the day of judgement; when the Lord shall judge all the world, when he that is holy, shall be approved of and acquitted, and he that is vile and wicked shall be condemned, I look to that day. Were he not worthy to be begged for a fool, that should go away troubled and disquieted, because a company of drunkards had condemned him upon the alebench, when the Judge had cleared him upon the bench of justice: therefore steel your faces against all the malicious accusations of the wicked: let them sit and condemn thee upon the alebench if they will, so long as thou art acquitted in heaven, herein be for ever cheered through his mercy.

Vse 1 The proper fruit of this Doctrine is this; Is it so, that justification is an act of God the Father upon the beleever? then it is a ground of admirable comfort to beare up the heart of a poore sinner above all the accusations, and all the power and the policies of our enemies against us, or the intendments of the wicked to hurt us: remember but this, that God the Father justifies, and this will bee a cordiall to beare up the heart against whatsoever the world, or the devill, or the wicked shall lay to the charge of a beleever: If thou art justified before Gods tribunall in Heaven, why shouldst thou care, or feare, or bee troubled or disquieted, when thou art condemned by the wicked upon the earth? this justification on Gods part can wipe away and scatter all the clouds, and all the accusations on mans part: