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The souls ingrafting into Christ. By T.HThe soules ingrafting into Christ. By T.H
The souls ingrafting into Christ. By T.H.The soules ingrafting into Christ. By T.H.
London: printed by John for Andrew Crooke, 1637London: printed by Iohn for Andrew Crooke, 1637
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE SOULS Ingrafting into CHRIST.THE SOVLES Ingrafting into CHRIST.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. Things in the Description.
The humbled sinner, for else nothing to do §1with Christ, stands possessed of Christ, I use the word possessor, because it is rather wrought upon the soul, than comes out of any Principle in the soul; Christ possesses him, and hence he comes to be possessed, Gal. 4.9. as if he should say, It is not, how we can perceive him, but how he will know us. Philip. 3.12. Still a man is more passive than active, the work lies on Gods part. The child holds the father, because the father holds him. So we hold God, because he holds us.
The humbled sinner, for else nothing to doe §1with Christ, stands possessed of Christ, I use the word possessor, because it is rather wrought upon the soule, than comes out of any Principle in the soule; Christ possesses him, and hence hee comes to bee possessed, Gal. 4.9. as if he should say, It is not, how wee can perceive him, but how hee will know us. Philip. 3.12. Still a man is more passive than active, the worke lyes on Gods part. The childe holds the father, because the father holds him. So we hold God, because he holds vs.
He is made partaker of the good things in Christ, still the action lies on Christs part, we work so far, as we are wrought on.