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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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Use. The use of this last branch, it is a word of terror, and it is able to shake the hearts of the proudest wretches under heaven: they that let themselves against God and Heaven, and make nothing of the sins they have committed, nor of the wrath of God threatened, and when the Minister saith, Oh the end of those sins will be bitterness: this contempt of God, and grace, and holy services, and these oaths will be bitter in the latter end: How can you bear the wrath of God, and you cannot possibly avoid it; tus•, say they, come, let us talk of other matters, and not busy our selves with these matters; well, saith the Minister, but the word is true, and the word saith it; well then, saith the soul, and I will bear it as well as I can: If I sin, I will bear it; and if I come into hell, I shall bear it as well as another, and I shall make a shift for one? Oh poor sinful creature, wilt thou bear it, and make thy part good as well as another? dost thou know what thou sayest? let all those stouthearted men that sit in the feat of the scornful, and make nothing of God, nor his wrath, nor of hell, nor of the sins that they have committed: let them know that they shall never be ⟨p. 280⟩able to bear the indignation of the Lord; see here and behold a little, all you that make nothing of the withdrawing of Gods favour, Psalm 97.4, 5. and Revelation •.14, 15, 16, 17. The heavens departed away as a scroll when it is rolled, and every mountain and Isle were removed out of their places, and the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens, and rocks, and in the mountains, and said to the mountains, fall on us, and to the hills, cover us from the presence of him that sitteth upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand? If any man could bear up himself, then it were the great ones of the world: now take a scantling of your own strength; if any were able to bear the wrath of the Lord, it were the kings and the mighty men, and the captains, and the rich men of the world, but faith the text, The day of the Lords wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?