The souls exaltation A treatiseThe soules exaltation A treatise

Name: The souls exaltation A treatise
Author: Thomas Hooker

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.

Thomas Hooker 1586–1647London: printed by John Haviland for Andrew Crooke, 1638London: printed by Iohn Haviland for Andrew Crooke, 1638

[16], 311, [1] p. · 92k words · STC 13727 · ESTC S104195

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THE SOULS union with CHRIST.THE SOVLES union with CHRIST.

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First, that a faithful soul is firmly and nearly knit unto Christ.

First, that a faithfull soule is firmly and neerly knit unto Christ.

:38p. 3

Secondly, he is so knit that he becomes one spirit.

Secondly, hee is so knit that he becomes one spirit.

:39p. 3

But first of the first doctrine.

:40p. 3–4

What ever by way of comparison can be alleged, concerning the near combination of one thing with another, they are all tied to this knitting ⟨p. 4⟩of the soul to Christ: look what a friend is to a friend; look what a father is to a child; what a husband to a wife; look what a graft is to a tree; and that is nearer than a husband to a wife: nay, go yet farther, Galat. 2.20. what the soul is to the body; the soul is not only knit to the body, as one member to another, as the hand is knit to the arm, and the arm to the shoulder; but the soul doth communicate it self universally through the least part of the body: so the Apostle saith, Christ is the very soul of a believer, I live, yet not I, but the Lord Jesus liveth in me; so that look as the body liveth by the soul, the soul closing, and communicating, and quickening of the same, so Christ is in a Christian, and speaks in a Christian, and enableth a Christian to the performance of that he doth; hence the body of the faithful is called Christ,

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