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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, the growing of the soul with Christ: these two take up the nature of ingrafting a sinner into the stock:
Secondly, the growing of the soule with Christ: these two take up the nature of ingrafting a sinner into the stock:
First, it is put into the stock.
Secondly, being put into the stock, it grows together with the stock: these two things are answerable in the soul. The former of these two we have largely treated of, and fully finished in the great work of vocation, when the Lord brings the sinner to himself by the call of mercy, and the voice of the Gospel: we are now to proceed; and we have made some entrance into the second; and that is the growing of the soul together with Christ: for though the graft be in the stock, yet it cannot be fruitful, unless it grow together with the stock: now this growing together is accomplished by two means:
Secondly, being put into the stock, it growes together with the stock: these two things are answerable in the soule. The former of these two wee have largely treated of, and fully finished in the great worke of vocation, when the Lord brings the sinner to himselfe by the call of mercie, and the voice of the Gospell: we are now to proceed; and we have made some entrance into the second; and that is the growing of the soule together with Christ: for though the graft be in the stock, yet it cannot be fruitfull, unlesse it grow together with the stock: now this growing together is accomplished by two meanes: