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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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Quest. If the question then be, how the soul by the spirit on Gods part, and faith on the souls part, comes to be one spirit.
Quest. If the question then be, how the soule by the spirit on Gods part, and faith on the soules part, comes to be one spirit.
Answ. That which I intend to speak, I will cast into three particulars, or three conclusions:
Answ. That which I intend to speake, I will cast into three particulars, or three conclusions:
Conclus. 1 The first conclusion is this, know that the spirit of God, the holy Ghost, the third Person in the glorious Trinity, he doth really, and inseparably accompany the whole word: (that is the ⟨p. 27⟩general) but he doth more specially accompany the precious promises of the Gospel: the Spirit of the Lord is in these in a more special manner, though he be a God every where in regard of his providence, yet he is in a more special manner going with, and accompanying of his Word; and in a more special and particular fort he is in the promises, the soul comes to be one with Christ, and to be knit unto him principally by the promise; the law prepares the soul, and the promise that calls the soul, and knits it unto Christ; God hath appointed his Word, and specially the promise for the converting of a sinner; and therefore the Spirit of God goes therewith, and works thereby, and gives a blessing thereunto, according as he in his wisdom thinks fit: for he is a voluntary agent, and therefore may use the word as he will, and when he will; the Spirit doth always work in the word, but not always after the same manner. You make nothing of the Gospel, and of the Scripture; I tell you the Spirit of the Lord God, blessed for ever, is there after an extraordinary manner, and hardens the hearts of the reprobates, and humbles, and converts and comforts the souls of his servants: and when? not when I will, or you will, but when the Spirit of the Lord will. This is that I take to be the best expression of it; look as it was with the brazen Serpent set up in the wilderness, there was an healing virtue inseparably accompanying of that brazen Serpent; and it was as possible that hardness should be separated from the brass,