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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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Secondly, what is it to be made sin? It is not to be meant, that Christ had any sin of his own, no more than we had righteousness; neither that God the Father did make him sinful, these are hellish and devilish blasphemies: but we must understand it so, as may stand with ⟨p. 166⟩Gods Justice, Holiness, Christs purity, &c. God the Father charged all our sins upon the Lord Jesus Christ by imputation: but if you ask me, why doth the Text say, that he made him sin and not a sinner; the reason is this, because our Saviour did not bear the sins of any one man in particular, but he bore the sins of all the world: all the evils which they had committed, were charged upon our Saviour, and God the Father follows the suit upon the surety, and accounted him as the debte•, and as one that was guilty of all those sins, because he had taken them upon him; so the point of Doctrine hence is this:
Secondly, what is it to bee made sinne? It is not to be meant, that Christ had any sinne of his owne, no more than we had righteousnesse; neither that God the Father did make him sinfull, these are hellish and devillish blasphemies: but we must understand it so, as may stand with ⟨p. 166⟩Gods Justice, Holinesse, Christs puritie, &c. God the Father charged all our sinnes upon the Lord Jesus Christ by imputation: but if you aske me, why doth the Text say, that he made him sinne and not a sinner; the reason is this, because our Saviour did not beare the sinnes of any one man in particular, but he bore the sinnes of all the world: all the evils which they had committed, were charged upon our Saviour, and God the Father followes the suit upon the suretie, and accounted him as the debte•, and as one that was guiltie of all those sinnes, because hee had taken them upon him; so the point of Doctrine hence is this: