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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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Use 2 In the second place, did our Saviour suffer these pains? then see here the strictness of Gods justice: Oh that exact precise severity of Gods proceedings without exception of any mans person; God puts no difference, although he were his Son, but he lays punishment upon him. This is the reason of that exact dealing of God, in Rom. 2.9. Tribulation and anguish shall be upon the soul of every one that sinned, and why? […] God is no respectre of persons; as verse 11. that the ground of it; and it is not only expressed but it […] also proved undeniable, Rom. 11.22. Behold therefore the bounty and severity of God; towards them which have fallen, severity, but towards that bountifulness: remember Gods just proceeding against the Jews, and therefore it is, that the Apostle citeth all the proceedings of Gods judgements, not only against the heathens that never knew him, or his enemies that always opposed him, but even to his friends such as he had showed much favour and mercy to: if they sin, they shall be destroyed for their sin. But oh the just exactness of the justice of the Lord, how severely just he is! for this exactness is not only upon the wicked, and open profane, but upon his own dear children, and they that have had his ordinances, as in Amos, the Prophet shows what favours ⟨p. 242⟩they had received, in regard of the means; but yet feel how severely; the Lord punisheth them: but he hold the miracle of justice in the Lord Jesus Christ his only Son, in whom his soul delighted: our Saviour that had but the shadows of sin, had all punishments laid upon him in thick […]. Now answer me whether God the Father be not a strict God or no, and a just and righteous God that would thus deal with his only Sonne. A man would have thought if any thing in the world could have stopped the hand of Divine justice, that it should not proceed from God the Father, then Christ he might have done it, for her had all that ever any one in the world could have: If the excellency of the person of our Saviour could have done it, or the holiness of the soul of our Saviour, then he might have been exempted from punishment, yet all these were not able to do it, because he was a surety; but yet a man would have thought that those tears of blood might in some measure moderate the matter: