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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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Fourthly, whatsoever punishment proceeded from the Father, our Saviour took it upon himself; yet so, as neither his sins deserved it, neither did he sin in bearing of it, nor yet was he overwhelmed in bearing of it, as the wicked are which are damned, but he wrestled with it, and overcame it; he first took upon himself that should have come upon a believer; when the wrath of God comes out like a Lion to take the sinful sons of men from off the earth, and the sea of his indignation flows in amain, then the Lord Jesus Christ steps in between the wrath of the Father, and the soul of a believer, and he bears all, John 18.11. when Peter would have rescued our Saviour from the high Priests, Our Saviour said, suffer it to be so, put up thy sword into its place; shall I not drink of the cup which my Father giveth me to drink of? he doth not say, shall I not sip or taste of the cup, but, shall I not drink of it? that is, he drinks the cup of wrath which was prepared for poor sinners, clean off; therefore Isaiah 63.3. he is said to tread the wine-press of the Fathers wrath alone, he did squeeze it all out▪ observe these explications in this kind, and know thus much, that the want of the sense and feeling, and operation of Gods love, and the feeling of the indignation of Gods wrath in it self considered, ⟨p. 221⟩it is not a sin, but so far as our sins deserve this wrath of God, and deserve this separation, and so far as we out of our infidelity dash the sweetness of Gods love, we sin in this kind; but none of all this befell our Saviour, the bare want of the one, and the sense of the other is not a sin, but we sin in bearing it. It is a sweet observation of the Schoolmen, that our Saviour cried, my God, my God, even in the loss of the sweetness of Gods favour; and when Christ complains, and sweat water and blood, yea clods of blood, so that his heart broke within him under the fierce indignation of the Lord: this fierce indignation may be attended two ways, or there are two things in it: I say in the separation of God from the soul, there are these two things to be attended: First, a want of that grace, and holiness, and confidence, whereby the soul should close with God, that howsoever God goes away, yet the soul should follow him, as Jacob did after the Lord, when he said, I will not let thee go, unless thou bless me: