8'2 The spiritual life, and In-being his Spirit ; yet he is fo far united unto a beleever,as tomake him a member ofthe Body only : Ent the fecond Perron was United unto our Nature, and unto our Beth to make Chrift 1. the Mediator. Indeed, if God were United toman fo far I as to make himMediator betweenGod and Man, then he might fay, I amGod, and I amChritt : but (1 fay,) this Union being Voluntary, hedoes fo far Unite himfelf un- to the foul ofa Beleever, as to make him a Member of the Body only, and not a Mediator. But when the Second Perfon was United toour Nature, the Union was to make the Perfon a Mediator* And thus ye fee, there is a great deal of Difference between that Hypoltatical Union, and this IVlyaical Union of a Beleever. - And whereas it isfaid, in that 17. ofJohn, That Chrift praies that we may be one with him, as he is with the Fa- ther : That they all may be one, as thouFather art inme, and lin thee; that they alfo may be one. I anfwer : This is an As of Similitude, and not of Equality : Chrift praies unto the Fa- ther, that Beleevers maybe one with him ; not by way of Equallitie ; that a Beleever fhould be Equallie one with Chrift, as Chrift is with the Father : for then Chrift fhould pray, that a Beleever might be worfhipped too, which he never did : and if that Chrift here fhould pray, that a Be- leever might be one with Chrift, as Chrift with the Father, in regard of Equallitie ; then Chrift fhould pray, that a Beleever {honk' be one with him from Eternity : for faies he unto his Father in the beginning ofthechapter, Glorify me with thyfelf, with the fameglory which I hadwith thee before the rvorldmu. Chrift was one with the Father before the world was. Therefore, ifhe fhould pray, that a Beleever might be one with him, in regardof Equallity, he fhould pray that a Beleever might be one with him,in that refpe&: which were impoffible. But he does not pray, that a Be- leever might be one with him, by way of Equallitie, as he is one with the Father by wayofEquallitie, but Simi- litude. And yet divers Learnedand Reverend men, think the meaning ofthat place rather tobe this, That they may be
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