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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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You know what the ordinary promises are in this kind; I will be with thee in six troubles, […] the seventh I will deliver thee: mark this, the heaviest afflictions of the Saints of God, nay death it self is so far from being an argument of Gods forsaking them, that it is an argument of their glorying in God; as in 2 Cor. 12.10. Therefore I take pleasure in my infirmities and reproaches, necessities and persecutions: and in anguish for Christs sake, the Apostle rejoiceth in persecutions, and in the midst of all extremities.
You know what the ordinarie promises are in this kinde; I will be with thee in six troubles, 〈…〉 the seventh I will deliver thee: marke this, the heaviest afflictions of the Saints of God, nay death it selfe is so farre from being an argument of Gods forsaking them, that it is an argument of their glorying in God; as in 2 Cor. 12.10. Therefore I take pleasure in my infirmities and reproaches, necessities and persecutions: and in anguish for Christs sake, the Apostle rejoyceth in persecutions, and in the midst of all extremities.
A second reason why it is false is this, God is said to leave his servants two ways, and there are no other ways in Scripture that I know of First when God takes away his assistance in the time of ⟨p. 266⟩trouble, and he lends not that strength and that assistance, whereby with patience they may be•e, and with courage go through those afflictions, but now and then he lets them not be soiled, by their own infirmities, and to fall by their weaknesses, that they may learn to see their own weaknesses, and learn not to trust in themselves, but in the Lord their God: Now this forsaking cannot, nor did not befall our Saviour in common sense, because he prayed for assistance, and whatsoever he prayed for, he had; as Hebrews 5.7. He was heard in that which he feared; and so consequently assisted: nay, he was confident of the issue of it,