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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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was it not enough, and more than enough, that the Son of God came down from Heaven, and suffered such grievous pains, but shall I again crucify the Lord of life, and shall I again pierce those blessed hands of his, and pierce that blessed side of his, and all gore his sacred body with my unclean sins, and force him to cry out again, by reason of my sins which I have committed? this is more than brutish, and more than savage; I beseech you in the bowels of the Lord to consider well of it: you know what Christ said when Saul persecuted the poor Saints at Damascus, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It pierced the Lord Christ, when any of his members were pierced, Acts 9.4. but now for such as believe in Christ, and look for mercy from Christ, consider how nearly it will touch him, and trouble him; not only to have his members pierced, and persecuted, but also to have his good Spirit grieved, and himself to be wounded. Imagine you heard the Lord speaking, as the Church did in Lamentations 1.12. Is it nothing to you all, oh ye that pass by, is there any sorrow like unto my sorrow? have you no compassion at all upon a Saviour? what, will ye spit in my face? what you? what and to a Saviour too? and will ye pierce my soul by the corruptions of your hearts, and by the actions of your hands? thus the Lord Jesus Christ ⟨p. 241⟩persuades you to see sin, and to abhor and […] it upon all occasions; and therefore let us answ•• the requests of our Saviour, and not show our selves desperately wicked to pierce him again, and to renew his sufferings.
was it not enough, and more than enough, that the Son of God came downe from Heaven, and suffered such grievous pains, but shall I againe crucifie the Lord of life, and shall I againe pierce those blessed hands of his, and pierce that blessed side of his, and all goare his sacred body with my uncleane sins, and force him to crie out againe, by reason of my sinnes which I have committed? this is more than brutish, and more than savage; I beseech you in the bowels of the Lord to consider well of it: you know what Christ said when Saul persecuted the poore Saints at Damascus, Saul, Saul, why persecurest thou mee? It pierced the Lord Christ, when any of his members were pierced,