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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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Thirdly, they do not only act thus, but are ⟨p. 5⟩bound one to another: and this makes them act answerably to these three particulars. There is also an expression of the knitting of the soul to Christ in three particulars:
Thirdly, they doe not onely act thus, but are ⟨p. 5⟩bound one to another: and this makes them act answerably to these three particulars. There is also an expression of the knitting of the soule to Christ in three particulars:
First, the soul gathers up it self, and all its spirits, its faculties, that doth exercise in the work thereof upon Christ, and that makes the soul to grow unto the Lord: when the soul turns the promise into good blood, it doth not only chew the meat, but digest it, and it becomes good blood: a true believer gathers up all the faculties of his soul, and employs them upon Christ: hope expects Christ, and desire longs for Christ, and love and joy embrace Christ, and the will closeth Christ; thus the soul settles it self upon Christ, hoping, expecting, longing, desiring, loving, embracing: look as it is with a woman that kneads dough, if there be two parts of it, the moulding and the kneading knits them together, and makes them one lump: so there is the moulding of the soul to the promise, hoping, and desiring, and longing, and choosing; faith kneads all these together, and knits them unto God, and draws the soul to him.
First, the soule gathers up it selfe, and all its spirits, its faculties, that doth exercise in the worke thereof upon Christ, and that makes the soule to grow unto the Lord: when the soule turnes the promise into good bloud, it doth not only chew the meat, but disgest it, and it becomes good bloud: a true beleever gathers up all the faculties of his soule, and imployes them upon Christ: hope expects Christ, and desire longs for Christ, and love and joy imbrace Christ, and the will closeth Christ; thus the soule settles it selfe upon Christ, hoping, expecting, longing, desiring, loving, embracing: looke as it is with a woman that kneads dowgh, if there be two parts of it, the moulding and the kneading knits them together, and makes them one lump: so there is the moulding of the soule to the promise, hoping, and desiring, and longing, and chusing; faith kneads all these together, and knits them unto God, and drawes the soule to him.