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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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Answer. For answer hereunto, he suffered the pains of the first death; by the first death, I mean the death natural, when the frame of the body and soul was taken down, and those two old familiar friends were parted: this death our Saviour did suffer, but if you ask me how far he did suffer the death natural, let me answer it in three conclusions.
Answer. For answer hereunto, hee suffered the pains of the first death; by the first death, I mean the death naturall, when the frame of the body and soule was taken downe, and those two old familiar friends were parted: this death our Saviour did suffer, but if you aske mee how farre he did suffer the death naturall, let me answer it in three conclusions.
First, whatsoever appertains to the substance, and the essentials of the first death; that is, the desolation of soul and body, that our Saviour Christ did suffer; for that only was threatened unto Adam by reason of his sin, therefore Christ needed not to suffer any thing, but that which was threatened in Genesis. 2.17. The curse threatened was this, In the day that thou dost eat thereof, thou shalt die the death: the curse doth not mention many deaths, nor doth it punctually set forth any one death; but whatsoever death it is, it is left indifferently to the choice of our Saviour: this I ⟨p. 211⟩speak to wipe away a carnal cavil that is cast upon this truth, by some that would diminish the sufferings of Christ. If Christ did suffer punishment for all, then why was he not stoned with stones, as Steven was? and why was he not sawne in pieces, or burnt, or the like? The force of the argument follows not, our Saviour was not bound to suffer many deaths, nay, the curse doth not intimate any one death in particular, but only death in the general: Now, say they, if our Saviour suffered all the punishments of the faithful, then he suffered so many particular deaths: the argument is false, for look how Adam being in the root of all mankind, and committed sin; look what death he deserved, that death our Saviour was to suffer, and it was required of him, and this death our Saviour undertook; but when Adam had committed sin, there were not many deaths denounced; nay, nor any one particular death, but only death in the general; and therefore death in the general being only threatened, death in the general our Saviour was only bound to suffer.