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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, the Godhead did preserve the manhood from corruption, and did sustain and support the Manhood.
Secondly, the Godhead did preserve the manhood from corruption, and did sustaine and support the Manhood.
Thirdly, the sense and sweetness, and the feeling operation of Gods mercy, and favour unto the soul, was restrained from both, and the wrath of God seized upon both.
Thirdly, the sense and sweetnesse, and the feeling operation of Gods mercy, and favour unto the soule, was restrained from both, and the wrath of God seized upon both.
Thirdly, our Saviour suffered pain in his soul as he was our Mediator in our room, and in our stead, and as he had our sins imputed to him: The Manhood bore the sufferings, and the Godhead supported him in the sufferings: this conclusion I thought good to add, to meet with a strange dream of Bellarmine, and that is this, saith he, if the Lord Jesus Christ did suffer the wrath of God the Father, then the guiltless should have been condemned, and the innocent punished; and how can God do this? or how can our Saviour suffer this? Is not God the Father unjust to punish the just? and Christ unwise, to suffer as unjust, being just? I answer, it is a silly weak cavil, therefore take but these two respects with you, and you shall see it will be plain, for as Christ was in himself considered, he was guiltless, and therefore approved of, and beloved of the Father: but as he took our sins, and our guilt upon him, he was accounted as a sinner, though he was not a sinner, and he took our sins on him by imputation; and therefore no reason, but he should suffer them, and the punishment of them, not in regard of any sin that he had or did; but because it was imputed to him; therefore