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Go
fpel
TOn
fsion.
body:fo alfo'the Union between Man
and
Wife
is a
near
Union,
but
the Union between
Chrift
and
a
ji;ftified Soul
is
nearer
than
any
of
there
:
there
is
one
expre
ilion in
Scripture that Chrift
ufth,Johrr /i4. zo.
You
in
n4e,
and
1
in
you
:
there are
no
two
things
fo
nearly
united
;
though
he
members
be in
the body,the
body
is
not
in
,he members
;
iò
the branch,
though
it be in
the
root,
the
root
ca,-.not be in
the
Branch
;
but
the Union
between
Chrift
and
us,
I.r
Chrifl.
in
pa,
and
we
in
him
;
Hè that
joyned
to
the
Lord
in
ne
Spirit
:
It
is
a
fpiritual Union,and the Uni-
on
of
fpirituai things
i
:the
neareft
that
can
be
:
Now,
Bleffed
is
the
man
whofe
fins
are forgiven,
becaufe by this
means,
God
brings the
Soul
and
Chrift
to
fuch a
near Union, that all naiural
Unions are but
dark fhadows of it.
Of
the
feventh
114yf?erie,
It
is by
Faith,
yet
boafting excluded.
7.1t
mug
be by
Faith,
and
that
is
the molt glorious
work
that
ever
God
enabled
a
poor creature
to
do,
yet boafting
muff
be
excluded
,
the Scripture
excludes
.boafting
froth both
not
only
from the Law
of
works,
but
the
Law
of
faith
;
but
you may fay,
How
can
both
be
excluded b6th
the
Law
of
works
and
the
L-iw
of
faith
?
tor works
they
may
be
excluded
fay
fome,
becaufe
works
are
our own,
but
faith
is
the
gift
of
God
;
God
inables
us
to believe
,
therefore there
can be
no boafting
of
faith
becaufe it is
the
gift
of God,
but
works
are our own
;
this
anfwer
is
but
a
fi
&ion,
for
7f
we
be
inabled
for the
performance
of
any
work
that
is
of
God
too
;
the
work
of
any
grace
is
the
gift
of God
as
really
and
truly
as
faith
is
the gift
of God,
all
gracious works
are perform°d
't-y
the grace
and gift of
God.
Adam
could
not do what
he did
in
Innocency,
but
by
the
gift
of
God
;
and
therefore
to
fly
boafting
is
excluded by faith,
be-
caufe
faith
is
the gift
of
God
,
will not
ferve the
turn
;
there-
fore
the
myfterie
of juftific
tion
is a
great mytlerie,that notwith-
ftanding
faith
i5
fuch a
glorious
work,
as
it
is
one
of
the
glori-
ouf
ft works
that
ever
any
creature did, yet that
this fhould
be
excluded,
by this
I
cannot
'gut
be
perfwaded, that there
is
more
in
the
work
of
Faith than
in
any thing
Adam
ever
had
;
and
that faith the
power
of
believing was
not
in
Adam
in
the
Rate
of