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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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Quest. 2 Secondly, when did our Saviour begin these sufferings, and when did be end them? To this I answer thus:
Answer. Our Saviour Christ begun the pains of the natural death from his cradle, to his grave: I am not ignorant of the diversity of the judgements of Divines in this point; but that which I conceive to be most seasonable is this, he begun to die; as soon as he begun to live, and that upon this ground; look to the curse that God hath threatened, Gen. 2.17. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death; so that Adam began to be a debtor, and must be a sufferer from the very beginning of his sin; and so all the sons of Adam, they have no sooner an entrance into life, but they are dying: The meaning is this, as thou eatest thereof thou shalt die; that's the meaning of the text as it is in the original; die, die, die, even from the beginning of thy life. Now when ⟨p. 246⟩our Saviour became• debtor, he must also become a paymaster, and he must keep the […] of the payment: justice requires this, and they […] are faithful do and will keep this: now […] Saviour was a good paymaster, therefore the day of his humiliation was the day of his dissolution; he had sorrows and miseries even until his departure out of this life: nay, not only the curse required it, but also daily experience makes it good; look upon our Saviour as soon as ever he w•• borne, there was no room to be had for him […] •nne, but be was laid in a manger in the stable; •d not in a cradle neither, but in a cratch: and Herod; he fought his life too, and in his riper years, he suffered hunger, and cold, and backbitings; and all these were but as harbingers to make way for all that desolation and wrath which came upon him. There is never a child of Adam, but so soon as he is borne into the world, he falls to crying, and so he continueth in sorrows all the days of his life, and all these are but dyings: when the tiles begin to fall, and the thatch to moulder from off the house, we use to say the house will fall shortly: so all the sorrows and the disgraces that were cast upon our Saviour, so soon as he was persecuted, they were all preparations to his death. Again, look to the end why our Saviour came into the world, as in