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'Doff.
In
Chah
only
we
become
one.
Hst.3.
ç:
ávaxi9araím-
ors.
DoEf.
Vnion
of
Be-
Ieeversis
moh
(trait.
Ephefians,Chapoz.
V
E
R,
15.
I
rate,
and
with
patience
to forbear. Efpecially
in
things
of
this nature,
which concerns not
fo
much that' outward
and afpeetable commu-
nion,
which we have either with
God
or
men,
effentially required
in
a
vifible flare,
as
the
due
ordering
and
carrying
of
every
bufineffè
in
the
faid
communion,
wherein there may be many
fuperfluities and de-
feets,
Salva
tarnen code¡:a
;
yea,
and fuch
a
Church
norwithflanding,
as
wherein the
belt
and
trueft members
(circwnftances
confrdered)
may have
more
caufe
to
rejoyce, then to grieve.
To
make
of
twain
one
new
man
in
him
felf.
]
Here we
are to
ebferve;
n.
The
perlons, with their condition,
[ru.
taro.]
2.
In
whom,
[in
himf
lf.]
3.
To
what we
are
framed,
[one
new
man.]
4.
The
union it
felf, or
kinde
of
it;
the form
of
it, we
have
fpoken,
[the
creating.]
So
that
three things would be confidered
:
r.
The
way
of
uniting us.
2.
The
(trait conjunetion
of
all
the
faithful!.
3.
The
fruit
of
our being
in
Chrift,
or whence all true
peace
flowerh.
°bferve
firft,
The
way we come to be one,
is
in
getting
fellowfhip with
Chrit,
who
is
one
and
the
head
of
all; and this
Hypo
foretold,
fpeak-
ing
of
this union
of
Ifrael, that they
fhould go and
gather
themlelves
together
under one head:
For what
is
the ground
of
the
unity
Mall!!'
the members
e
That
they
have this conjunction under one
head
:
foJ
it is
in
the
fpirituall
confideration;
and
therefore the
ground
of
making
us
one ,
is
the
drwmfwin,
caws
fpoken
of
in
the
firft
chapter.
Look
as
it
is
with
two
never fo
disjoyned,
take
Tome
man
and
woman,
let
them
and their
allies
be utterly alienated
;
yet
if
marriage be made between
them, they come interchangeably to
be near
in
kin, each
to
the
friends
of
the other, the
husbands
brother, the
wives
brother,
hers
the
huf-
hands
:
So when
by
Faith we
aretnarried
to Chrift,
fo
that
he
is
one
fleíh
with
us
fpiritually,
all his
brethren become
ours, and we thus
in
hitn
come to
be one.
The
Papifts
therefore,
the
Jew,
the Turk not holding Chrift
the
head,cannot be
one
with
us. See
Cel.
2.19.
It
reacheth
us
what
we mull
do,
if
we
would grow into
acquain-
tance with
God
and his
people,
we mull become members
of
Chrift
the head.
Secondly
mark ,
[one
man:]
Obferve,
how (traitly the
faithful!
come
to be
combined
:
To
be
of
ene
Nation
had been
fomewhat,
to
be one kindred , to be one houfhold
;
but the
beleeving come to
be
one
man,
all
one
in
chrifi
I
efoa,
Gal.
3.
a
8.
till
we
all
meet
together into
one perfel~i
man,
through the
unity
of Faith,
Ephef.
ç. No
conjunction
in
the world
fo coupled ;
the
man and wife are
near
,
even one
flefh
after force fort
, but
yet they
are
not one
perfon any way
:
But the
godly
gathered, when they
come
to
be
in
Chrift,
become
one per
-
fon with the reft
of
the
faithful!
fpiritually.
There