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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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the meaning is, he is a common Saviour to all believers, that as it is in a common ground, every one hath a share in it, and every borderer though never so poor, may come and ⟨p. 168⟩put on and feed his cattle as well as the best: so here every poor believer may come and feed upon the Lord Jesus Christ: therefore the Apostle in the 3. verse of Jude calls it the common salvation; not common to all the wicked and unbelievers, but to all the faithful that border upon the promises, and do believe in them, it is common to them all; and the man that offered the sacrifice was to lay his hand upon the head of the sacrifice, and there to confess all the sins of the children of Israel; this was the unburdening himself of his sin, and laying it upon the head of the sacrifice the Lord Jesus Christ; that so what we are not able to bear, he may bear for us, and answer divine justice for us; and so there was another ceremony, Leviticus 16.21. Of the scape goat, there were two sacrifices to be offered, the one was to be a burnt offering, and the other was to escape; Aaron was to put his hand upon the head of the live goat, and to confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and their trespasses, putting them upon the head of the live goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a man appointed into the wilderness; so the goat shall bear upon him all the iniquities to a land not inhabited: and the other was to be offered up for a burnt offering: this was the type; now the intendment of the ceremony was this; the goat was the Lord Jesus Christ, and when Aaron did put his hands upon the head of the goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and did put them upon the head of the goat; ⟨p. 169⟩it was thus much, God the Father did charge all the sins of all the world upon the Lord Jesus Christ, even of all, from the beginning of the world to the end of it, and did put them all upon the Lord Christ; and howsoever he was a sacrifice for sin, yet he was a scape goat, and hath escaped out of the hands of hell and death, and is now in Heaven, and with him all believers shall escape from hell and death, by the power of his merits. Further ye see how the Prophet expounds the Law, Isaiah 53.4, 5. We thought him afflicted and buffeted for himself, but he was wounded for our sins, and broken for our iniquities;