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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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these are his tokens, and I hope you will lay them up by you, & make much of them, but when will the time come that I may enjoy my Saviour? Now I have a little mercy, and a little holiness, and a little pardon of sin; but oh that I might enjoy my Saviour fully: Now it is quite contrary with the wicked; the death of the wicked is a means to shut them out of all the hope they had of receiving mercy, for when death parts soul and body, then there is no more cards and dice, no more lusts; the adulterer shall no more satisfy himself with his unclean lusts, the drunkard shall not then be drunk, the blasphemer shall not then blaspheme so as he was wont to do for nothing, but he shall be and blaspheme God for something, and his soul shall be full of Gods vengeance; this is the death of the wicked: the death of the Saints is like a ferryman to convey them over to eternal happiness; but the death of the wicked is as a hangman to bereave them of life and salvation too: death to the saints is as a guide to convey them to happiness, but to the wicked, death is as a Jailer to carry ⟨p. 213⟩them away to the place of execution. And thus much briefly of the former part of the answer, namely that our Saviour suffered the death natural.
these are his tokens, and I hope you will lay them up by you, & make much of them, but when will the time come that I may injoy my Saviour? Now I have a little mercy, and a little holinesse, and a little pardon of sinne; but oh that I might injoy my Saviour fully: Now it is quite contrary with the wicked; the death of the wicked is a means to shut them out of all the hope they had of receiving mercy, for when death parts soule and body, then there is no more cards and dice, no more lusts; the adulterer shall no more satisfie himselfe with his unclean lusts, the drunkard shall not then bee drunke, the blasphemer shall not then blaspheme so as hee was wont to doe for nothing, but he shall be and blaspheme God for something, and his soule shall bee full of Gods vengeance; this is the death of the wicked: the death of the Saints is like a ferriman to convey them over to eternall happinesse; but the death of the wicked is as a hangman to bereave them of life and salvation too: death to the saints is as a guide to convey them to happinesse, but to the wicked, death is as a Jailor to carry ⟨p. 213⟩them away to the place of execution. And thus much briefly of the former part of the answer, namely that our Saviour suffered the death natural.