108 GJ '~,1ce a!Jo~ndin(l . 0 1\1Jn Chrift Jefus')as be is difi:intt front ns 7 as· touching his bodily prefence, fo he is our · P~ighteoufi1efs and Sanctification before God, t1ere therefore I li ved,for fotne ti n1 e, very fweetly at peace with God through Chrifr;O n1ethought ChriH: ! Chrift! there was nothing but Chrift that \Vas before my·Eyes,I was not (now· only) for 108king ~pen this and the o... ·ther benefits o(Chrift 31Jart;as of his Blood, B]rial,or H.efprreftion,bt1t confidered him as whole Chrifr; as he in vy born all thefe, and all his other Vertues;--1telations, 011ices and Operations ri1et to,Qether and that as he fat on the right hanQ of God in I-leaven. 233· 'Twas glorious to n1e to fee his exal– tation,and the vvorth and prevalency of all his benefits, and that becaufe no~!con id look from 111Y felf to hin1, and fhould .reckon, that all thofe Gracesof God tint now V,; ere green on n1e, \vere yet but like thofe crackt-groats and four pence half.. pence, that rich men car– ry in their Purfe-s, when their Gold ,is in their Trunks at hon1e ! 0, I :(:1 w n1y gr)ld was in · n1y Trunk at hon1e! in Chri11 n1y Lord and 5aviour! Novv Chr1ft was all; all n1y \Vif– dom, al11ny Righteot~ ft1efs., ail n1y-Sac1if1ca· · ·rion, and all n1y Rede rupti9n. 234· Further, 1-.he Lord did alfo lead r'1e. into the 1V1yftery of llnion vvith the Son of /– God, that 1 was joyned to hirn, t hat.I V\ as flelh of his flefh, and bone of his bone, and now was that a fvveet word to me, in Ephef.
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