]ob.17,;1 O· :1.(, :u, Bo~kiV. · Looking unto 1t{t~s . Chap.2.. Sed.2 - --- - Gordian knot, as finne, hell, and the grave were never able to nnty; yea,though in the death ofChrill there was a feparation of .the foul from the body , yet in that fepimtion, the hypofiatical union , remained firme, nnibaken and indiffolublc : in this meditation thou haft great caufe, 0 my foul to admire and adore ; wonderful things are fpoken of thee 0 Chrifi ! he is (;od in a perfon of a Godhead , fo as neither the Father, nor the Holy ' Ghofl: were made f:leib; and he is man in the nature of man , not properly the perfon; the humane •nature ofChrifl: never having any perfonal fubfifience QUt of the Godhead; this is a myfiery that no A ' gel, much leffe man, is able to comprehend : we have not another example offuch an union (as you have heard) onely the nearefi fimilitude or refemblance we .can finde, is that of the branch and tree into which it i·s ingraffed. ; we fee one tree may be f~t into another, and it groweth in the fiock thereof, and becometh one and the fame tree , though there be two nature5 or ' kinds off:uit frill remaining therein ~ fo in the Son.ofGod made ma.n ,' though there be two natures , yet both being united into one perfon, there is but one SonofGod and oneJefus Chrifr. If thou wik confider this great myftery ofgodliruf[e any further;review what hath been faid in the object pr.opounded , where this union is fetforth more largely and particularly; but efpectally , confider the bleffed effects of this union in reference to thy felf ; as our nature in the perfon ofChrifi is united to the Godhead, 'fo our perfons in and by this union ofChrift are brought nigh to God. Hence it is that God doth fet his Sanctuary and Tabernacle among us; and that he dwells with us, and which is more, that he makes us boufes and habitations,. wherein he himfelfis pleafed to dwell by a is holy Spirit. Ye are the T empleof 1he living God , as Gcd hath J~~.id I will dwell in them , 1md walk.)n them , and I will be their Godand they foall ./:Je my people , ;;. Cor. 6. I 6. Was not this Chrifis prayer in our behalf? I pray not f or thefe alone , l ut f ort hem alfo which f/utl! believe en me throHgh t heir word~ thatthey all may beone , as-thou F111ther vtrt in me , and I in thee , that they alfo m11y be one in us , that t he world may believe that thou haft f ent me , I in them , and thou in me, that they may be perfet1 in one, and th.Jt the world may k.,now that theu hlljl fen t me, and haft luwd thtrn as tkou haft loved me. By reafon of this hypoAt ottij:'l\1 uni-on of Chrifi: , the Spirit of Chrift is given.to us io ,the - -·· - ~,ery
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