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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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It is not the sovereignty of the king nor the skill and courage of the captain, or the liberty of the freeman, or the slavery of the bondman that can deliver them; but they all cry to the rocks, fall on us, and cover us from the presence of the Lord: nay, that you may yet see the vileness and wretchedness of your hearts, and the miserableness of your condition, when the presence of the Lord appears, see what the text saith, Psalm 114.5, 7. The sea fled, and the earth trembled, the hills melted at the presence of the Lord, nay, the devils ⟨p. 281⟩themselves tremble; as in the 6. and 8. verses of the epistle of Saint Jude, The Angels which kept not their first love, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness to be kept for the judgement of the last day: they have their portion for the while, but there is a great deal of wrath to come, and there are many plagues coming, and they know Gods wrath, and they shake and tremble in the apprehension of it: now when you see this, go home to your own souls, and let every man that would heretofore (as his own conscience can tell him) flout God to his face, and make a scorn of hell, and of judgement, and condemnation: go home, I say, & lay this to your own hearts, and say, is it so, that the mountains shake, and the sea shrinks, and the devils tremble at the wrath of the Lord: good Lord then how shall I be able to bear it, that am not able to conceive of it, nay if any man think that he is able to undergo the wrath of God, and to bear it off with head and shoulders, look but here upon the Lord Jesus Christ that was perfect God, and perfect man, he that created heaven and earth, and boat up the foundation of heaven and earth, yet when he came to bea•t the wrath of God, it forced tears from his eyes, and clodded blood from his body, and made him cry out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Do but now compare your selves with Christ, and say, did my Saviour buckle under the wrath of God? then certainly it will break you therefore say thou, if he that was the Creator of heaven and earth could not bear it, then how shall I be able ⟨p. 282⟩to bear it, when he comes against me for my si• and corruption committed by me therefore heart and fear all you stout hearted of the world, rather now tremble while you may be comforted, than hereafter when you shall never be eased: