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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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nay the greatest indictment at the day of judgement proceeds against sinners because of the persecution of his Saints, because in them they persecute Christ himself; they tear out the very eyes of Christ, and rend his heart in pieces: Jud. 14. The Lord cometh with thousands of his Angels to execute judgement upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly amongst them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him: Matthew 25. the latter end, Depart from me, ye cursed, I know ye not; I was in prison, and ye visited me not; I was naked, and ye clothed me not: why, Jesus Christ is gone to Heaven, and haply they never saw him: b•• faith he, in that you did it not to one of these, ye did it not to me. Now Divines reason thus, that all the doom that shall pass upon the wicked at the day of judgement, shall go in this tenure: because ye have not done this and that; and if those shall be condemned that did not visit the Saints when they were in prison: if those shall be damned that did not cover the naked, what shall become of those that […] hearts, and rend the […] of […] ⟨p. 16⟩the Lord hath not only torments for them here, but he hath devils in hell to torment them for evermore: Therefore let me speak a word of advice to those that are guilty of this great sin of persecuting the Lord of life; go aside and reason with your souls, and parley with your hearts, and think with your selves, Oh poor fool that I was, it was not any poor Christian, any poor Saint that I hated, but it was the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of life, and of glory, that I persecuted, that I would have plucked out of his Throne; I would have tore his flesh off his body, and rent his members asunder; and alas, I never knew it; it was not the Saints I opposed, but the Lord Jesus Christ. I speak not this to countenance faction, my aim is at those that persecute religion and sanctity of life.
nay the greatest indirement at the day of judgement proceeds against sinners because of the persecution of his Saints, because in them they persecute Christ himselfe; they teare out the very eyes of Christ, and rend his heart in peeces: Iud. 14. The Lord commeth with thousands of his Angels to execute judgement upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly amongst them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him: