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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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Secondly, a stroke of error, which smiteth ⟨p. 252⟩upon the soul with the admiration of it, as when a sudden and an unwonted and an intolerable evil beginneth to seize upon a man, and the stroke of some terror and fe•• strikes in and drives the soul to an amaze, and insomuch that the heart saith, good Lord what will this come to? if this befall me, what shall become of me? this is astonishment. The second part is this, and that goes further, and our translation expresseth it to the full; My soul begins to be very heavy, that's our translation; but the word goes a degree further, when this sorrow act only struck and shook the heart of our Saviour with the suddenness of it, but it entered into his soul, and filled it abundantly, and racked it to the uttermost of the abilities of nature to bear it: shall I deal nakedly? this word heavy, carries two things with it. First, that the soul of our Saviour was surcharged and filled, being full: with the indignation of the Lord, and that heavy vexation that lay upon him: for so the word implies, abundance of misery which doth bear down the heart of a poor creature, but this was not in the Lord Jesus Christ: though his soul were filled brim full of the indignation of the Lord, yet he was not overcharged with it. Secondly, hence it follows, that all the faculties of the whole nature of the soul of our Saviour, they gathered up themselves, and they drew up all their forces, to bear up themselves against the wrath of the Lord, which was now coming upon them; all the powers of his soul, the mind and the memory, ⟨p. 253⟩and hope and fear, they were all gathered up: as in time of war, the soldiers come all forth from their garrisons to close in the main battle; so the Lord Jesus foresaw the wrath of the Father coming against him, and he drew forth all his abilities, and left all other employments wholly, and brought them to fence and to fortify themselves to bear this wrath of the Lord; as if our Saviour had said, Come ye all hither, and help to bear up my soul against the unsupportable wrath of God; this is the very skirt and selvedge of the word:
Secondly, a stroke of errour, which smiteth ⟨p. 252⟩