H.ead n. t'he my/lical U~zion. 203 principalit/u or powers oo f!aith; nor evil thing; preftnt, ;r1heady Jying on us, nor evil-things 'to co.m~ on' us; nor'the height of worldly felicity, nor depth· of worldly mifery•; , nor a.ny of.hc.r creature, good or'ill, Jhall be'able lo fepara!t 'u, from, the love of Coli, whic.~ is in Ch'rifl Jefu; our Lord. As 0eatb,fep«rated Chrift's fou'l .. from ~is body, but could n,ot (eparate either his fou! OJ: body from his divine nature; ' ,fo th0t1gh the faints lhould pe feparated from their neareft relations in the world, and from all their earthly enjoy– ments; yea, though their fouls {hould be ' feparate from their bodies, and. their ·b?dies fepa.rate in a thoufand pieces, theit booes. fcJ.ttered, as . when one cutteth or cle;weth v1po.d; -yet f,J1ll and body, and every piece of the body, t~e fmalleH dufl of i't, tl1aH remain ·united to the Lord Ghrift: for even in death the_y jleep in Jejru, f T.heff. iv. 14. and, he heepetb. all their bo1u1. Pfdl. xxxiv . 20. Union wit}) Chrifl: i!; the grau '"vJherein we fland, ~rm and fl:able, as mount Zion, •which cannot be removed . . LaJlly, It is a '1'11)/lerirmJ uniOI). The gofpel is a do8:rine' of myiteries. It dif.covers to us the fubftantial union of the t~ree pufons in . one Godhead, t John v. '7. Theft three are one: the hypoHatica[ union of the divine and human n~tures in the ·perfon of our Lord Je~us Chri(~, 1 'Tim. iii. r6. C<Od '<V'aJ manifefl in th.e jlefh: and the myfl:ical union be– t~.yixt Chrift and bel!eve.rs; t/Jis iJ .; great myflery alfo, Eph; v. 3 2. 0 what myfleries are here! The Head io heaven, – the members on· ean'h, yet ree.lly united l Chrifl: in the be– liever, living in him, walking in him ; and , the· believer dwelling in God, putting on the Lord Jefus, .eating his flefh, and drinking his blood! this makes the faints a myfiery .to the world; yea, a my11ery to tl:iemfelves. SE~oNDr.Y, I come now m()re panicula.rly to fpefik of . this uoioa with, :)nd ingrafting .into Jefus Ch'riil. And, ( ~ .) I (hall cooGdt;;r the natur~l Hock which the' branch~:; ate taken qut o~, (2.) The fllpernatural fl:o,ck tbry are' ingrafted into. ( _v) Wbat branches are cut off .the old flozk and put ' into the new. (4.) How it is done. And, ~ajlly, The bene.fits ;fiowir.g· from this union and ingraftOf . . ..
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