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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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Object. But some will say, do not these things befall alike to all, as David saith, Psalm 88.15. Thy terrors have I suffered from my youth upwards, do not these things come alike to all? the same poverty, the same misery, the same anguish of heart; do not these fall alike to all, as in 1 Chron. 21.12; 13, 14. was there not much misery befell David, and do not the same plagues that befall the one, befall the other? the holiest man, and the profanest man partake alike in these; wherein lies the difference then?
Object. But some will say, doe not these things befall alike to all, as David saith, Psalme 88.15. Thy terrours have I suffered from my youth upwards, doe not these things come alike to all? the same povertie, the same misery, the same anguish of heart; doe not these fall alike to all, as in 1 Chron. 21.12; 13, 14. was there not much misery befell David, and doe not the same plagues that befall the one, befall the other? the holiest man, and the prophanest man partake alike in these; wherein lies the difference then?
Answer. I answer, the difference lies in two particulars.
First, the judgements that are laid on the wicked, they come from Gods anger, and God requires them in way of satisfaction unto divine justice; but all the corrections, and chastisements, and terrors, and troubles that befall the godly, they come from Gods love, and from his Fatherly care. A Physician cuts a man, and an enemy stabs a man, the knife was all alike; but to the one, it comes from a friend, and to the other it comes from an enemy: so God doth send afflictions to the godly, and to him they