A03604:378
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, I will show you what the Scripture saith of that agony in the 14. of Saint Mark, and in the 26. of Matthew.
First, I will shew you what the Scripture saith of that agonie in the 14. of Saint Marke, and in the 26. of Matthew.
Secondly, I will make it good that those sufferings ⟨p. 251⟩were most grievous sufferings, which he suffered in his soul:
Secondly, I will make it good that those sufferings ⟨p. 251⟩were most grievous sufferings, which hee suffered in his soule:
For the first, what our Saviour suffered when he was in that agony in the garden, when he crieth out, Father, if it be possible let this cap pass from me. The Scripture discovers the pith of all that anguish of soul, and the whole compass of it, what it was that did thus fill the soul of our Saviour, and that is in these two things, and you shall find them both in Mark 13.33. where the text saith, when our Saviour was to enter into the combat, he saith thus; he began to his amazed, and to be very heavy: let me express them thus: he began to be driven to an astonishment, and to have his soul filled with the indignation of the Lord. First, our Saviour Christ foreseeing the wrath of God, and the combat of God the Father coming against him, he began to be amazed: the word in the original is this; That so you may see the depth of the distress, and the bottom of the cup. The word amazement comes from a word that signifies to be in a stand, or to be astonished: such a sorrow as men use to have for the loss of some dear friend; nay the preposition in that which is added signifies a grief beyond astonishment: whatsoever grief could befall a creature without sin, that all befell our Saviour: this word carries two things with it: