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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 in the next place, I come to fasten upon the proof of the point, to wit, that this sorrow must needs be more than can come from the pains of death, and I shall make it good by force of argument, that this sorrow cannot come barely from the natural death; I shall give you grounds from Scripture, and from reason, and I reason thus:
Now in the next place, I come to fasten upon the proofe of the point, to wit, that this sorrow must needs bee more than can come from the paines of death, and I shall make it good by force of argument, that this sorrow cannot come barely from the naturall death; I shall give you grounds from Scripture, and from reason, and I reason thus:
All the sorrows that came upon our Saviour, they came by reason in this cup, that is, from these sorrows, and miseries that he was to bear, both in the agony in the garden, and upon the cross: Now that cup which brought astonishment in upon his soul, and filled it full of anguish, and drove him to an amaze, and not only to weep bitterly, but to trickle down drops of clodded blood, that cup must needs be more than the pains of a natural death, but that cup which caused all this, was that which brought them in, and made him thus to be astonished, and filled his soul with anguish, and wrested clodded blood from his body; therefore this was more than natural death: the latter part of the argument is undeniable, namely that the agony came from this cup; ⟨p. 260⟩therefore the cup was the cause of his sorrows, and griefs, and tears; but to think that natural death should drive our Saviour to this astonishment, it is unreasonable to think it, that the Soldier should bear that which the Commander cannot bear, and that many a poor Christian that hath but a little grace, should bear the pain of a natural death for a good cause, and that comfortably; and shall not Christ the Fountain of all grace bear much more? it is unreasonable for any man to think so: therefore there must be more than the pains of a natural death, in the sufferings of our Saviour. He that gave his Saints grace to bear these pains of the natural death, he hath much more grace in himself to bear them, and to come forth from under them.