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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The first is the union which the soul hath with Christ.
The first is the union which the soule hath with Christ.
The second is a conveyance of sap, or sweetness, or a communion with Christ, and all the treasures of grace and happiness that is in him: then to make up the growing together of the graft and the stock; First, the graft is put into the stock. Secondly, there must be a communicating of the moisture that is in the stock, to the graft, and ⟨p. 3⟩so they grow together; otherwayes it grows not at all, but withers away: now we are first to describe the nature of the work in general, and then we will descend to particulars, and the several parts of it: now we will define this union so far as it concerns our purpose, not entrenching into particulars.
The second is a conveyance of sap, or sweetnesse, or a communion with Christ, and all the treasures of grace and happinesse that is in him: then to make up the growing together of the graft and the stock; First, the graft is put into the stock. Secondly, there must bee a communicating of the moisture that is in the stock, to the graft, and ⟨p. 3⟩so they grow together; otherwayes it growes not at all, but withers away: now wee are first to describe the nature of the worke in generall, and then we will descend to particulars, and the severall parts of it: now wee will define this union so farre as it concernes our purpose, not int•enching into particulars.
It is such a joining of the faithful soul in such a means to Christ, that it becomes one spirit: these are not by way of collection to be gathered, but they are plainly expressed in the text: and two points of doctrine I mean to prosecute: the first point is from the first part of the text.