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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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Secondly, some again are maliciously massacred with dishonourable cruelties, they are pulled the flesh from the bones, and burnt to ashes, &c. None of all these did fall to our Saviour, these are personal things, they belong not to the nature of man, and therefore it was no way requisite that Christ should undergo those kinds of death: mark these two passages to open it a little, Acts 2.27. quoted out of Psalm 16.10. Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine ⟨p. 207⟩holy one to see corruption: Now the Saints of God do see corruption, but this was a dishonourable infirmity; for Christ though he suffered for us, yet he raised up himself from the vileness of the grave, and saw no corruption, and therefore it was no dishonour to him: John 19.33, 36. When the soldiers found our Saviour dead, they brake not his legs, that the Scripture might be fulfilled which saith, not a bone of him shall be broken: Whatsoever dishonour our Saviour Christ did submit himself unto, he was willing to suffer; but what was not by Law required, and what was not fit for him to suffer, that Christ would not suffer the Jews to do unto him, for the Law did not require this in the curse, that his legs should be broken, and therefore Christ would not undergo it: this is the third conclusion.
Secondly, some againe are maliciously massacred with dishonourable cruelties, they are puld the flesh from the bones, and burnt to ashes, &c. None of all these did fall to our Saviour, these are personall things, they belong not to the nature of man, and therefore it was no way requisite that Christ should undergoe those kinds of death: marke these two passages to open it a little, Acts 2.27. quoted out of Psalme 16.10. Thou wilt not leave my soule in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine ⟨p. 207⟩holy one to see corruption: Now the Saints of God doe see corruption, but this was a dishonourable infirmitie; for Christ though he suffered for us, yet hee raised up himselfe from the vildnesse of the grave, and saw no corruption, and therefore it was no dishonour to him: