d 1."' n;:; • Hea II. - va71Ltlpcatum. 1 ~4t with the finful creatme, nor (confequendy) .an imm,ediate~ .commanion with it: yet, the creatl}re coqld not liv~ the · Jife ~of grace, with<mt communion with the foun tain of Ji fe: Therefore that the honour of God's holinefs, ·.and· the fal- . va,tion ~f fio~ers, might jointly be prov·,_:ed for; the fe.cond. perfon of tl~e glorious Trinity, took, into a perfonaf union. with himfelf, a finlefs human natur-e ; that fo this holy, harm– /ifs andund~fil~dhumanity, might immediately receive a fu!· nefs of .the Spirit, of w~ich he might communicate to his members-by his divine power and effic\lCY. And likeas~ if there were a tree; having its - root in the earth, and its branches teaching to_heaven; the vail: difiance betwixt the root and the branches woul4 not ·interrupt the comamniea– tion betwixt the root and the top-branch: e:v.en [G, t,he d ifiance betwixt the. man Chrifi, ~bo i,.s in heaven, and hi's members, w'Eo are on earth, cannot hinder the communi– cation betwixt ·them. ' What though the pahs of rnyfiical Cbrifi:, (viz. the he2d and m>mbers) are not, contiguous, as Joioed together in the way of a corpo,ral union ? The union is not therefore the Jefs real d.r effeCtual. Yea, oq.r Lord himfelf thews us, .that albeit we would eat his flefh, in a corporal aod carnal-manner; yet, it wouldprofit n.otbing, · John vi. 63. we would not be one whit holier thereby. But the members of Chrifton earth, are united to their J1ead in J1eaven, by the inviGble bend of the felf-fame Spirit dwell· iog in both; in him as the head, and in them as the mem· bers; even, as the wheels in Ezekiel's vifim1, were not con· ttiguous to the li'oing creatures, yet were uniud to them' by • an iovifible bond of onefpiri t in both; fo -that, whm the li· ying cf:Mfures ttvent, the "'.AJlee!.J we;;t by them , a11d ctvho;. \ the living creatures '".Alere lift up fr om the earth, t he ttvheel.r were lift up, Rzek. i. 19. For, f:1ys the prophet,- th~ fph·it of the li.tJ!ng creature <7!JaJ in the q)Jh'ee/.r, vcr. ~(' . Hence, we may fe~ the d~ fFerence betwixt t,:ue fan{/ .j_:– ca/lion, ,and thatjhador.AJ of itt wh ich is to be' found among ft forne Hritl: profdfors of Chrjfl:ianity, wbo yet are not t rue -chrifiiaa.s, are na.t regenerate by the Spirit of Chrifl:, and is of the fame kind with what has appeared in many fobe t· heathens.• True fanctification is the refu!t of the fo.ui's Dnion with the holy Jefus, the ·6dl: ~and if11mediate receptacle of: the fanctifying Spirit; out of whofe fulnefs-~his members cloy ' X i . by
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