The souls exaltation A treatiseThe soules exaltation A treatise

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.

Secondly, there can bee 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 againe and overthrow it, but this is admirable consolation, doth God the Father acquit us in Heaven? then let the Devill goe and appeale 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 sinnes are pardoned, and you are acquitted in Heaven: therefore goe your way comforted, and let the Devill appeale 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 hee saw that the Jewes were maliciously bent against him to have his life, he said, No man may deliver me unto them, I appeale unto Cesar: he saw hee should have hard dealing there if hee were committed to them, therefore he appeals unto Cesar: so we, we have had our case tried in Heaven, wee have Cesars judgement seat to goe unto, the first person of the Trinitie is our Father, the Creditor hath made it good unto us by the witnesse of the Spirit, that our iniquities are pardoned, and that he will heare no more of them: therefore goe away for ever cheared and comforted.