84. The Spiritual life) and pa-being Anfiv. Etification ; a mans Sanecification does bear witnefs to him that he is the Child of God, that is, Water. But now, SanEtifi,ation confifis, either in the Habit of grace, or in the AEting ofgrace; if therefore the Spirit of (Thrift in a Bel eever,were nothing elle but Grace, inherent Grace, then it were all one with the teftimonyof Water : but there are Three that bear witneffe, There's the tehimony of the Spi- rit, there's the teftimonie of Blood, and there's the teftimo- nie of Water : If by theSpirit we are to underhand only, theGrace ofChrift, the Habit of grace in the foul , then there would be but Two that bear witneffe, namely, Water, and Blood ; becaufe the other would be al one with Water; Water being meant only Sanaiication: But now there are Three that do bear witneffe unto a foul that is in Chrift, The Spirit, and Blood, and Water ; and therefore Chrift is really in a Beleever, Chrift really united unto all Beleevers by his Spirit. What is the Benefit ofall this ? For fuppofe that we grant this, That Chrifi in a Beleever, is not only Grace, and the Habits of grace in thefoul, but Chrifi HimPelf is really in thefoul of a Be- leaver by his Spirit : What Profit, Benefit, or Comfort will come unto a Beleever more this way than the other way ? Much everyway : Firft. IfJefusChrift be really united to each beleever by his Spirit,and really in him in this fpi- ritual and myfiical way ; Then a beleever (hall havemore bleffedand glorious Communion with Chrift than the o- ther way. For Union is the root of Communion : The sband & the Wife are firft Joyned together, and United, and then they have Communion with one another , and Fellowfhip in their goods,and eftate ; Union is the ground of Communion, And the nearer the Union,the greater the Communion. Now if Chrift fhould be only in a beleever by the Habit ofgrace, the Union would not be fo great : but ifthis be true, That Chrifl is really in a beleever by his Spirit, Chrift really United to each beleever ; here the U- nion is rearer,and therefore the Communion ,and Fellow- fhip that abeleeverihal havewith Chrift, a great deal more and more blared . Secondly
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