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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. The Lord Jesus Christ suffered fully whatsoever punishments divine justice required, or were deserved by the sins of the faithful.
Doctrine. The Lord Jesus Christ suffered fully whatsoever punishments divine justice required, or were deserved by the sinnes of the faithfull.
I ground this Doctrine out of the Text thus; the text saith, Christ was made sin, that is, he had our sins imputed to him, and therefore he must be made a sacrifice for sin, and bear the punishment of sin: If Christ became a debtor for us, then he must also lay down the payment of the debt, only here remember this; consider the bounds and limits of this mercy of the Lord, it is limited only to the faithful, they only share therein, and are partakers of that benefit that comes by the sufferings of Christ.
I ground this Doctrine out of the Text thus; the text saith, Christ was made sinne, that is, he had our sinnes imputed to him, and therefore hee must bee made a sacrifice for sinne, and beare the punishment of sinne: If Christ became a debtor for us, then he must also lay downe the payment of the debt, onely here remember this; consider the bounds and limits of this mercy of the Lord, it is limited onely to the faithfull, they onely share therein, and are partakers of that benefit that comes by the sufferings of Christ.
To prove this Doctrine, look Hebrews 2.17. compare it with Hebrews 4.15. In chap. 2.17. the text saith, Wherefore it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren in all things: and in chap. 4.15. He was tempted in all things like unto us, sin only excepted; for there were no punishments excepted, as appeareth in the former place; therefore in Isaiah 53.5, 6, 7, 8. the whole chapter is a full description of the punishments of our Saviour, and you shall find these three degrees of it in the afornamed verses, He was stricken, and so stricken that he was wounded, and so wounded that he was bruised for our transgressions; and then in the 6. verse, it is very pithily laid down, All we like sheep have gone astray, and the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all; that is, the punishments of us all;