354· Book IV. LeokiJtg unto 1-efus. Chap.z.Sed.:9 john 17. ll 1]ohn r. 3 to become man; we {hould have found it no robbery t.o be eqlla\ with devils, and are we too proud to learn of God? what an intollerable difproportion is this, to behold an humble God and a proud man? who can endure to fee a Prince on foot and his vaf(almounted? fha :l the Sonne of God be thus humble for us, and fua llnot we be humble for our felves ?I fay for our fe!ves, that deferve to be cafr down am01:gfl: the loweft wormes, the damnedfl creatures? what are we m our bell condition here on earth ? had we the bell: natures, purefl: converfations, happieft endowments that accompany the Saints, prideoverthrowesall· it thrufl: proud 7'f..!buchadne~:z;,ar out of Babel, proud Hamnn out oft he Court, proud Saul out of his Kingdome, proud Lucifer out ofHeaven; poor man how ill it becomes thee to be proud) wh~n God himfelfe is become thus humble? 0 learn of me (faith Chrift) for I am meefe.. and humblr, and lowly ilJJpirit, and you /ball Jindc rejl ur;to your fouls. 5. The two natures ofChrifl:, though really dillinguifued, yet were they infeperably joyned, and made not two,but one perfon; fo mul.l: our natures and perfons though at greateft difl:ance fromGod, be infeperably joined and united to Chrill, and thereby alfo to God. I pray (faith Cbrifl:) that they all mfly be one 111 thou Father art in mr,and I in thee, that they tt /fo may be one in ur. That union ofChrifl:s rwo natures we call a perf una! hypoftatical union, and this union of Chrifr with us, we call a myftical and fpiritual union; yet though it be myfi ical and fpiritual, this hinders not but that it is a true, real, e!fential, fubllantial union, whereby the perfon of the beleever is indiffolubly united to the glorious perfon ofthe Son of God. For our better underlland- .ing we may con!ider (ifyou pleafe) of a threefold unity, either o t perfons in one nature, or of natures in one perfon, or of na• . tures and perfons in one fpirit; in the firf\: ts one God; in the fecond is one Chrif\: . in the third is one Church with Chrifl. our union unto Chrift is the lafl: of thefe, whereby he and we ar~ all fpiritually united to the m<~king up of one m),ilical body, 0 what a priv iledge is this! a poore b~leever, be he ne ver fo mean or miferable in the eye of the world, yet he is one with Chrifl, as Chril.l is one with the Father; ('u r fd!&w(bip is wirh the Father and with his S onne Jtf<~ s Ch-,.ijf; every Saint is Chrills fellow; there is a kinde of analogical proportion between Chrift and his Saints
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