:130, Benejitsflor;_ui~g·ftom ClJrijJ to Believers. State Ill. his heart is loofed from them, though formerly as dear to him as the members of his body; as his eyes, legs, or arms: and, inHead of taking pleafure in them, .as fome 'time he did ; he longs to be rid of them. \\'hen the Lord Je· fus comes to a foul, in the day of conv~rting gr:t-ee : he finds it like Jeru.falem in the day of hc.r ttativit;·, (Ezek. xvi. 4 ·) with its navel nr;t cut, drawing its fulfqme nouri{h– ment and fau~sfaetion fi om its lufts : but~ he cuts off this communication, that he may fet ·the foul on th_e breath of his own confolatioss, and give' it rel! in himfelf. And thus the Lord' wouads the h~ad and ' heart of fin, and the foul comes to him, faying, Surely ourfathit'! have inherited /iu, .t•anity, and things wkerein there is no p-rofit, Jer. xvi. 19'" Of th~ benefits flowing to true believer.t from their ;nio,n . ' rwith Chr&'l. ' V. And lajlfy, I come _to fpeak of the bemjitJ flowing to true believers from their union with Chri£t. Tbe chief of , 'the particular benefits believer:s have by ir, are juflifica– tion, peace, adoption, fanClificaticin, growth in grace, fruit~ fulnefs in good works, acceptance of thde good works, eftablifument in a fiate of grace, fupport ,and a fpecial con· duel: of providence about them. ·'As for c9mmunion with Chrilf, it is fuch a benefit, as being the immed}a:e co'nfeque.nt of union with him, compre,hends all the reft as.m.ediate ones. l''o~ look as the branch, immediately upon its union with the·fiohk, .'hath communion with the fiock, in all that is in , it : fo t'he believer uniting wi(h Chrill, bath qommunionWith him; in 'vhich)Je lancheth forth into an ocean of h~ppinefs, is·led into a..paradife of pleafures, and has .a faving in– tereft in the. tr.eafure hid in the field of the gofpel, the .unftarchable rich.es o[Chri/i. As fo.on as the b~liever is united ':to Chri!l, Chrift himfelf, in whoma!t'fidnefl dwells, is his, ·Cant. ii. 1 6 . . A1y be!(}ved is mine, and lam his. And, ho'lu Jh.all he nqt r;with him free!y.give zts all things? Rom vii. 32 Whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, . or.. /ije, or d<fath, or thin:;-s prejenl, or things to come, -ALL m·e ·yours, 1 Cor. iii. 22~ Thus communion '7J.fi~h Chrijl is the great comprehenfive blcffiog, neceffarily flowing from our union with him. Let us_confider the particular .benefits ~owi1ig fro:rl ·it, .b;fo.re men~ioned. · · , · • · · The
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