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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. Knowledge in Scripture, implies two things.
Answer. Knowledge in Scripture, implyes two things.
First, a bare work of the understanding, when we are able to pierce into a thing that is offered ⟨p. 158⟩to us, and are able to fathom what is offered to our view: and thus Christ did know sin, and thus to know sin is not evil: The Minister knows sin, when he preacheth against sin; and thus God himself knows sin, and thus Christ knew sin, and he was able to fathom the vileness and loathsomeness of sin, but that is not here meant.
First, a bare worke of the understanding, when wee are able to pierce into a thing that is offered ⟨p. 158⟩to us, and are able to fathom what is offered to our view: and thus Christ did know sinne, and thus to know sinne is not evill: The Minister knowes sinne, when hee preacheth against sinne; and thus God himselfe knowes sinne, and thus Christ knew sinne, and he was able to fathom the vildnesse and loathsomnesse of sinne, but that is not here meant.
Secondly, there is another, namely an experimental knowledge, that is, when from some good that we have or do receive, or any good that we do of our selves, or some evil that we do commit, or fearing some misery to come upon us, we read the nature of the good and the nature of the evil: as when a man hath a sinful distemper of wrath and passion, and he knows the nature of his anger and pride, because he observes the venom of it in his own spirit: this is experimental knowledge, and they call it so because we read our own dispositions, and thereby we judge the nature of it, by judging our selves: The Physician knows the disease, and therefore he is able to apply medicines accordingly, but he knows it not experimentally; as we use to say, such a man never knew what poverty meant, and such a man never knew what the gout meant, that is, he never had it; and such a man never knew what a prison meant, that is, he never was in prison: This is the meaning of it in this place, Christ knew no sin, his heart never affected any, and himself never practised any: therefore he knew no sin by his own experience, yet by