( iiJ ft~rj; though the .Means may be fi1(1re then One that are neceffary· to obtain it. · And yet even with refpeet unto tbe mean1, it may be fa id that One thing is mcej{arr , by a General C;omprehenfive fpeech, aS>. One containeth many parts: As to cure aftck__nefs may be faid to be theOne thing medful to preferveamans Jife;when yet that cure muft be done by many.aCts and means<: The means are but One thin<r, as denominatedfrom their End ; even our everlafiing hap- – pinefs. And ~hey are but One ~s denominated fr?m ~heir Origi- – n~tl, they bemg all but the rYt!l of God revealed tn hts Word for .mam direttion to falvation. t.\nd r?~Yare all One in the principal flock that proceedeth from tlmOngmal or root: and that is,the L ·ord {efus Chrijf'himfelf, who is therefore eminently caHed the '\\?ay ; becaufe there is no other way or means, but what fiandcth in adu.e fubordination to the Redeemer as thechief means, as well as, to the pure God-htadas the End. . · Alfo as all the means of Gods appointment, have a union of •N ature or jimilitude with the End: And as Gods Image is One in ~11 his children; fo is it, in their kind and meafure, in all his Ordi'– nllnces and M~ans : Thty alfo in their kind and place are pAr- – tak.frs of the Divine nature : The name of God is as it were written Hpon them, and his bleffed nature legible in them~ Alfo the means are all but One , as all are parrs of One holy · frame -, which moO: harrnoniouily concurr to the doing of one work . : As all the wheels and other pares are but One CMch which carryethJ.Is .to our journeys end. .As Chrifi and·his Clmrch – arc one Body, I Cor. .I 2. I l; So Chriil: and all fnbordinate means f<>r the recovery and falvation of his own, are one Kingdom of · God, and o?Je WllJ to the F-athe-r, and one falvation·: I !hall fullyer ()pen it under tf.:te next head. And now for the Neg~ttive. you maydifcern by wnat is faid ,· ~. That here is no.fudi unity as even in the end -mufr confound (lod and man, or hugloryandour fa/vation • . 2. Nor is here any fuchUnityas cloth confound theEnd and '.foie~ms ; no not theGod-he11dwith the man.h@oaof the Redeemer» , .much lefs with_ the infe.riour kind of beings. · 3. Nor is there any fuch. Unity as doth confound all the means among them.fe!ves, and make all one ; or ·exclude·the refi .byex- . alcingGn·e; but rather each one doth fuppofe the reO:, to confii- -- tll;{~4.he p_~rf~ct f£tffi~~ ~~rift ~~t~-!!.?.~ ~~~!~~~ ~aith; ~or F 1 aidth • . ex-c u· ~: ;.o ' • • ~
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