116 Grace for Grace) Or the aver-flowings of ----- me ; faithHe : It is a union ofmutual in-being, not a uni- onof afferion only, fuch as the 'tones have, when they lye together in a great heap: but rather, fuch as is between the wine and thewater when they are put together, laving that they are not mixt together : ChrL: is not mixt with a Chridian, a Chriftian is not mixt with Chrift 5 Chrift is not a Chriftian, a Chrthian is not Chrift : but there is a union of mutual in-being. Nowyou know, when the fire gets into the Iron is united to it,is in it;the propertiesofthe fire are cOmunicated to the Iron ; the iron forgets his own blacknels, & fhines wth the (Lining of the tire, & burnswth the burning of the fire. And as,a, coal, a char-coal, though it be never fo dark, and black a body, when the fire comes, gets into it : the properties of the tire arecommunicated to it, and it burns like the fire it felf, and melts like the fire it felt*, and fhines like the fire it felf. So, when the Lord Je- fusChrifi is united to a foul, look what Excellencies there are in Chrift, what Graces in Chrift, the fame are Com- municated to it : the foul fhineswith Chrifts fhining, and warms with His warming ; there is Grace Anjiverabie for His Grace. Youknow,there was a bleffed union between the fecond Perfon, and our Nature, our Beth; the fecond Perfon takes our Nature upon him, and being united to our flefh, by vertue of the hypoftatical union, the idioms, and properties of the one, are given to the other, God hath no Beth, Cod hath no blood ; and yet we reade in the A s of theA potties, ofthe blood of God, becaufe of the union : the properties of the Beth, and ofmans nature Eph.4. are given to God. So faies theApofile : He that defcended o. is the fame alfo that afcended. God does not defcend, for He isevery where ; but by reafon of the union, what is proper to the flefh is given to God. And fo now, in this 7.-Van,there being fuch a glorious,and bleffed uni- on, between Chriff and a Chrithan ; whatfoever Grace, or Excellency, or property is in Chrift Himfelf, there is an Anfwerablenefs of Grace, an excellency wrought in the he:IKE of every Chriflian ; hehath Grace for Grace, he !lath 'tamp for (tamp. e., And
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