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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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now see whether he had good cause to complain; if he looked up to God, there were all his attributes crying for justice ⟨p. 255⟩against him, and death before his face, and the Jews and the Gentiles, Herod and Pilate and all conspired against him to bring in sorrow upon our Saviour: therefore he cries, Oh my soul it heavy even to the death, my soul is beset with sorrows; the Jews, and the sins of all the world will have my life; thus he began to be astonied, and was fain to gather up all his abilities, that he might fortify himself against those evils. This is the sufferings of Christ in the garden, and yet I speak under it; and if I had the tongues of men and of Angels, I could not express it; for these words are never read of any mortal man, but that there is weakness in the same, only Christ hath expressed thus much, that howsoever misery and wrath was able to overcome a poor creature, yet he bore it, and that without sins. Let these two cavils of the Jesuits be removed before we go any further, and the explication before spoken of will answer both.
now see whether hee had good cause to complaine; if hee looked up to God, there were all his attributes crying for justice ⟨p. 255⟩against him, and death before his face, and the Jewes and the Gentiles, Herod and Pilate and all conspired against him to bring in sorrow upon our Saviour: therefore hee cries, Oh my soule it heavie even to the death, my soule is beset with sorrowes; the Jewes, and the sinnes of all the world will have my life; thus he began to be astonied, and was faine to gather up all his abilities, that hee might fortifie himselfe against those evills. This is the sufferings of Christ in the garden, and yet I speake under it; and if I had the tongues of men and of Angels, I could not expresse it; for these words are never read of any mortall man, but that there is weaknesse in the same, onely Christ hath exprest thus much, that howsoever misery and wrath was able to overcome a poore creature, yet hee bore it, and that without sinnes. Let these two cavils of the Jesuites bee removed before wee goe any further, and the explication before spoken of will answer both.