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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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Use 1 From the former truth that our Saviour Christ did die this natural death. I gather thus much; it is a marvellous sweet cordial to all the Saints of God upon their sick beds; it is a ground of strong consolation (as the Apostle saith) to bear up the hearts of Gods people in the day of death, that they may lift up their heads with comfort, and look grizzled death in the face with courage and boldness; for the death of Christ hath taken away the evil of thy death: therefore be not thou troubled with it, nor dismayed by it; there is no bitterness in that pill, nor no venom in that cup to thee, for the poison is gone, therefore be not you troubled with it whensoever God sends it upon you; for the sharpest death ⟨p. 206⟩[…] ⟨p. 207⟩[…] ⟨p. 214⟩of a Saint of God, is like a humble Bee that hath no sting in it, which a child may play withal, and not be hurt: and thus Saint Paul plaid with death, 1 Cor. 15.55. Oh death, where is thy sting? as if he should say, the wicked fear death, because the sting is in it to them; but that sting is taken away from me, by the death of the Lord Jesus Christ: when Christ went down into the grave, he sugared it, and made it sweet, and easy as a bed of Down for believers to rest upon. There are three privileges which every believer may challenge upon his deathbed: the first is this:
Vse 1 From the former truth that our Saviour Christ did die this naturall death. I gather thus much; it is a marvellous sweet cordiall to all the Saints of God upon their sicke beds; it is a ground of strong consolation (as the Apostle saith) to beare up the hearts of Gods people in the day of death, that they may lift up their heads with comfort, and looke grizzeld death in the face with courage and boldnesse; for the death of Christ hath taken away the evill of thy death: therefore be not thou troubled with it, nor dismaid by it; there is no bitternesse in that pill, nor no venome in that cup to thee, for the poyson is gone, therefore bee not you troubled with it whensoever God sends it upon you; for the sharpest death ⟨p. 206⟩