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What
is
ChriRs
body.
Wherein the
union
of
it
ftandcrh.
How
the
Chu:
ch is
one.
Dots.
To
confider
our being fel-
low- members
h
4
motive
to
concord.
rfe.
Suffer this mo-
tive
to
ltrevai
le
with
us.
Gen.r3.
8.
Ephefians
Chap,
4..
nwnwommal
Vita.
q.,!
Wce
all
of
us
are
one body.
Ergo, 6-c.
For the
opening
of
it,
three things
are
to
be marked.
What
this
body
is
.
Chapter
r
23. the
Church. Chapter 5.23.
the Church
Paved
by the blood
of
Chrift.
2. In
what the Vnion
of
this body ftandeth
:
For Anfwer. Look
as
the Vnion
ofthe
natural!
body
(ands
in
this ,
that
parts
are
joyned
all
with
the
head, and one with another:
So this ma-
keth
the body
one,
or the multitude
of
fuch
as
are called out
of
i
this
world, to the glory
of
God, one;
becaufe there
is
Faith
which doth
as
a
ligament the them to
Chrift
their Head
,
and
there
is
love, which
as a
finew,
doth
knit them one
with
ano-
ther.
3.
The
third thing
is,how the Church
can
be
Paid
[one]
when the
Scripture maketh mention
of
many
Churches;
Rom.
16.4.
the
(even
Churches
ofvlfia.
So different
Churches
in
regard
of
time,
as
one
Church
in
the time
of
vldam,
another
in
the time
of
vibraham,
of
David
another.
The Church
is
confidered,
e. as
a
whole, the
number
of
all fuch
whom God
hath purpofed
to
call
to himfelfe.
2.
As
in
part, that
is, as parts
of
this whole have
in
divers
times
and
divers places appeared. In the
firft fenfe
the
Church
is
one:
in
the latter,
viz.
in
regard
of
the
appearing
in
divers times, and being
in
divers places, the
Church
is
Paid
manifold, not that many Churches,
but many parts
ofone
Church
put on this confederation.
Look
as in
the
natural!
body
in
bringing
forth,
one part
in
time commeth forth
after another, when one
is
forth with
us,
though
the
other
bee
in
the
wombe, yet this comming forth
in
divers times and being
in
divers
places, maketh
not the Infant many but
one
body
:
So the Lord
in
bringing
forth
his
Church,
which within
himfelfe he hath conceived,
though fome
come
forth
at one time,
Tome
at another,
forne
bee
in
heaven and fome
in
earth
,
Come
(as it
were) lye
Hill
in
the wombe
of
his
purpofe
undelivered, yet
all make not many
bodies, but
one
body.
Now
for the doltrine.
We
are
taught
hence, That
this
is a
great
motive
to
Cbriflian
Con-
cord,
to
think
how
all
of
us
are
joyned
ax
fellow-members
in
one body;
this
argument
is
urged
Col.
3.15.
Let the
peace
of
God
rule in
your
hearts,
to
the whichye are called
in
one body.
For look
as in
the
natural!
body,
the fellow members
of
is
keep
together,
and mutually ferve
one ano-
ther, the eye looketh for the
foot,
the
hand prote6teth
the head;
and
it
were monftrous
if
one part fhould feparate
from another,
and
fay
it
were not
of
the body
:
So we all
being one myflicall body,
it
is
as
monftrdus
in
grace,
as
the other
is
in
nature,
if
we fhould
not
live in
Vnity
together,
ferving one
another.
Wherefore
we mutt hence
Puffer
our felves
to
be
provoked
to
Chri-
ftian
Concord; ifthis
were with
4braham
forcible enough,
Let there
be
nofrife
betwixt
thee
and
me,
for
we
are brethren.
Much more this;
Let