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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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First of all,1 hath our Saviour thus suffered, and hath he stepped in between the wrath of God the Father and the faithful? Justice saith, that foul hath sinned, and must be damned, and anger saith, I must break out against that poor soul; then the Lord Jesus Christ steps in and ⟨p. 235⟩saith, I will bear all, and undertake the satisfying of all; I will bear all those punishments due unto them: you that are believers and have a share in Christ, unto you I speak; labour thou from hence to see the heinousness of sin, and to hate it, because it hath brought all this evil upon thy Saviour, and would have brought the same upon thee, had not the Lord Jesus Christ stepped in between thee, and the wrath of the Father. Oh look what thy sin hath done unto the Lord Jesus Christ, and see if you can love it, & take contentment in the commission of it: Let me teach you how to do it: send your thoughts afar off, and see our Saviour in the garden crying out, and saying, My soul is exceeding heavy unto the death, my soul is even beset with sorrows; oh watch and pray: And also when he was in that bitter agony in the garden, And he prayed yet more earnestly, and he stretched out his prayers, that it broke his heart almost; behold the tears in his eyes, and the clodded blood that came from him, and his soul was almost broken within him, under the fierce indignation of the Lord: and he fell upon the ground, and yet all this would not do the deed: follow him to the cross, and seeing him attended with the soldiers, and pierced through with a spear; see then if thou canst love thy sins that have done all this; and further, when you have seen him thus nailed to the cross, and pierced through with a spear, then if you have any hearts of men, (I do not say of Christians) listen a while, and here those hideous cries, My God, my God, why hast ⟨p. 236⟩thou forsaken me? Oh brethren it went very heavy with our Saviour: Now imagine that you heard those heart breaking sighs which broke the heavens, and let them break thy heart too: Oh go your ways home I charge you in the Name of Jesus Christ, and answer your own hearts, or rather answer the petitions of our Saviour, and say, Lord, why hast thou forsaken?
First of all,