The souls exaltation A treatiseThe soules exaltation A treatise

Secondly, some pains of hell were endured, and may be endured, by our Saviour, and yet the union of the manhood with the Godhead might still be untouched, and no way in the world be blemished, though there were a separation, and a withdrawing of the sense of the sweetness of the favour of God, yet this was not the separation of the union, but only of the loving countenance of the Lord, the humane nature saw not nor felt not those gracious smiles which formerly it did, yet he was ever united to the Godhead, and ever supported by the Godhead, and he did ever rest upon God, this doth cut in sunder the cavils of Bellarmine, as it was with Job, he was able to grapple with a great deal of Gods wrath by faith; and therefore he saith, Though thou kill me, yet will I trust in thee; Gods killing anger, and Jobs trusting ⟨p. 217⟩stood both together in this in the measure of it: Now if a poor saint of God can do it, and is able to bear the intimations of Gods wrath, then much more Christ, being God and Man, might do it, and yet trust in him, and never be separated from him in regard of the union of the soul of our Saviour; for as it is with the death natural in the body of our Saviour, as the body of our Saviour died, and in dying, suffered death natural, as an effect of Gods wrath, God smote him; howsoever the body died the death natural, yet the Godhead was still united to the body of our Saviour in the grave, and brought soul and body together again; so that the union with the Godhead is still maintained; so it is here, the soul of our Saviour might be separated from the sense and sweetness of Gods favour and mercy, and yet the union between the Godhead and the Manhood be still maintained; as God might leave the body to the death natural, so he might leave the soul to a kind of supernatural death, and the soul might want the sense of the sweetness of the favour of God, and yet the union not be broken off: for why could not our Saviour bear this curse, as well as any other part of it, and not be blemished? this brought punishment upon our Saviour, but it pulled not away any grace which he was possest withal: observe these three particulars herein:

Secondly, some paines of hell were endured, and may be endured, by our Saviour, and yet the union of the manhood with the Godhead might still be untouched, and no way in the world bee blemished, though there were a separation, and a withdrawing of the sense of the sweetnesse of the favour of God, yet this was not the separation of the union, but onely of the loving countenance of the Lord, the humane nature saw not nor felt not those gracious smiles which formerly it did, yet hee was ever united to the Godhead, and ever supported by the Godhead, and hee did ever rest upon God, this doth cut in sunder the cavils of Bellarmine, as it was with Iob, he was able to grapple with a great deale of Gods wrath by faith; and therefore he saith, Though thou kill me, yet will I trust in thee; Gods killing anger, and Iobs trusting