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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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Doctrine. God the Father did impute all the sins of all the world to the charge of our Saviour.
Doctrine. God the Father did impute all the sinnes of all the world to the charge of our Saviour.
All you that are debtors to the Lord, consider of it; if a man had forfeited his bond, and had great payments to make, if he knew any friend that would become a debtor for him and would pay the debt, oh how would he rejoice! Now we are all debtors and stand bound to God, therefore take notice of the point, God the Father charged all the sins of all the faithful upon the Lord Jesus Christ: if you ask me why I say the faithful; because the Text saith, He was made sin for us saith the Apostle, for us that believe: he would be sure to have some of that mercy, as he saith in another place, Christ came to save sinners, whereof I am chief: he, engrosseth mercy to himself; therefore you hard hearted and unbelieving wretches be packing, for Christ was ⟨p. 167⟩made sin for us, that is, for us believers: so that none of the faithful are exempted from the benefit of this Doctrine; Christ was made sin for every believer, for every believing creature in the world that can but rest upon Christ, and can touch the hem of his garment: it is not the greatness of your faith, but the sincerity of your faith, that helps you to come within compass of this point. For the proof of this Doctrine consider thus much: this is a truth of the Scripture undeniable, and that which hath from age to age been delivered to the people of God, all the offerings and sacrifices of the Law do show so much, and all the types of the Law do testify so much, as in Leviticus 1.4. compare it with Leviticus 5.5. in Chap. 1.4. he saith, The offender shall bring the burnt offering without blemish, and he shall put his hands upon the head of the sacrifice, and it shall be accepted of the Lord to be an atonement: and in Chap. 5.5. When he hath sinned in any of these things, then he shall come and confess that he hath sinned therein; this was the legal ceremony: now what is the substance of it? the sacrifices were types of Christ, he is the sacrifice without blemish, without sin, and the offering up of the sacrifice was the believing upon, and the tendering of the Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father by faith, and this must be done at the door of the Tabernacle: