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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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so it is with an humble broken heart, it is like this keeper, the good Spirit of the Lord is like this clasp, the Spirit works upon the soul, and leaves a supernatural virtue upon the soul, and goeth with that virtue, and pulls the soul by the power of it self, and knits it to its self, it works upon the heart in this manner, and clasps the humbled sinner, and brings him home, and holds him to the promise, and to it self in the promise.
so it is with an humble broken heart, it is like this keeper, the good Spirit of the Lord is like this claspe, the Spirit workes upon the soule, and leaves a supernaturall vertue upon the soule, and goeth with that vertue, and puls the soule by the power of it selfe, and knits it to its selfe, it workes upon the heart in this manner, and clasps the humbled sinner, and brings him home, and holds him to the promise, and to it selfe in the promise.
Now I would contract these three conclusions, in the former sermons, into three questions, to make them so familiar, that weak ones, which have any spiritual grace, may be able to come to apprehend and understand them:
Now I would contract these three conclusions, in the former sermons, into three questions, to make them so familiar, that weake ones, which have any spirituall grace, may be able to come to aprehend and understand them:
Quest. 1 I ask therefore, what is there in the promise of the Gospel, or what is there in the Word of God, is there nothing but letters, and syllables, and sentences?
Quest. 1 I aske therefore, what is there in the promise of the Gospell, or what is there in the Word of God, is there nothing but letters, and sillables, and sentences?