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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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look as it is with a creditor, if he hath gotten the surety in suit, he will acquit the debtor, and if the debtor be acquitted, all the bailiffs in the world can do him no hurt, and he saith, I am out of your debt and danger: so it is here, God the Father is the Creditor, we have wronged God most infinitely, we owe unto God all that we have, but yet he hath blotted out all our iniquities: therefore if the Devil follow the suit, it matters not, The Lord saith, I will remember his sins no more: therefore the Devil can pursue him no further.
looke as it is with a creditor, if he hath gotten the suretie in suit, he will acquit the debtor, and if the debtor be acquitted, all the bailiffes in the world can doe him no hurt, and hee saith, I am out of your debt and danger: so it is here, God the Father is the Creditor, wee have wronged God most infinitely, wee owe unto God all that wee have, but yet hee hath blotted out all our iniquities: therefore if the Devill follow the suit, it matters not, The Lord saith, I will remember his sinnes no more: therefore the Devill can pursue him no further.
Secondly, there can be no court in the world can alter our justification: if a man be righted in a lower court, a higher court may call it over again and overthrow it, but this is admirable consolation, doth God the Father acquit us in Heaven? then let the Devil go and appeal where he will. A man never appeals from a higher court to a lower, but from a lower court to a higher: now all your sins are pardoned, and you are acquitted in Heaven: therefore go your way comforted, and let the Devil appeal where he will, no man can reverse it: The mercy of the Lord and his sentence endureth for ever: you know it was Saint Pauls plea, when he saw that the Jews were maliciously bent against him to have his life, he said, No man may deliver me unto them, I appeal unto Cesar: he saw he should have hard dealing there if he were committed to them, therefore he appeals unto Cesar: so we, we have had our case tried in Heaven, we have Caesars judgement seat to go unto, the first person of the Trinity is our Father, the Creditor hath made it good unto us by the witness of the Spirit, that our iniquities are pardoned, and that he will hear no more of them: therefore go away for ever cheered and comforted.