Chap. zg about Cbrif>. Thirdly, hereby we are made one with God; fhall God then be God with us in our nature in heaven , and frail we defile our natures that God harp fo dignified ? (hall we live like beats whom Goa bath raifed above An- gels ? &c. Fourthly, as he hath thus advanced our natures, fohe hath put all the riches of grace into our nature in Chrift,and this for our good. Fifthly, our nature being ingrafted into theGod-head, therefore what was done in our nature, was ofwonderful extension, force, and dignity, which anfwers all objections. As I. Objee`i. How could the death of one man fatisfie for many millions Anfw. Becaufe it was the death ofChrift,whofe humane nature wasgraffed into the fecond perfon in the Trinity , and being but one perfon , what the humane nature did or fuffered, God did it. Q.Liefl. But how doth friendfhip between. God, and ur arife from hence ? Anfa. Fir%, becaufe firm which caufed the divifion,is hereby taken away : and finne being taken away , God is mercy it felfe , and mercy will have a current. Secondly, Chrift is a fit perfon to knit God and us toether,becaufe our nature is pure in Chrtft,and therefore in Chrift,God loves us. Thirdly, Chrift being our head ofinfluence, conveyeth the fame fpirit that is in him,to all his members, and by that Spirit,by little and little,purges his Church and makes her fit for communionwith himfelf, making us partakers of the Di- vine nature. Queft. How ¡hall we know that we have any ground of comfort la this Emanuel ? Anfw. We may know that we havebenefit by the firfl coming of Emanuel, ifwe have a ferious defire ofhis fecond coming, and to be with him where he is. If as he came to us in love, we defire.to be with him in his Ordinances as much as may be , and in humble refignation at the houre of death , defiring to be diffolved, and to be with Chrift, praying , Come Lord jefts, Revel. 22. 20, Secondly, whereas he took our nature upon him, that he might take our per- long to make up my(tical Chrift, he married our nature to marry our perlons, this is a ground ofcomfort that our perlons (hall be near Chrift aswell as our na- ture. For as Chtill hath twonatures in oneperfon , fo many perlons make up one myflical Chrift ; the wife is not nearer the husband, the members are not nearer the head, the building is not nearer the foundation, then Chria and his Church are near one another : whichaffords comfort in that, r. As he fantified his naturallbody by the Holy (,ho(t , fo he will fanfti- fie us by the fame Spirit , there being the fame Spirit in the Head and members. . 2. As he loves his natural body, fo as never to lay it afide to eternity , fo he loves his myflical body infome fort more ; for he gavehis natural body to death for his myflical body ; therefore hewill never lay afide his Church, nor any mem- ber of it. 3. As he rote toglory inhis natural body and afcended to heaven : fo he will raife his myflical body that it (hall attend as he afcended. Donor Sibs his Emanuel. . q.. Chrift being inheaven , and having all authority put into his hands , Pfal. 2.9,ró. he will not fuller anymember ofhis body to fuller more then is fie. Obje& If all thepower that Chrift bath begiven him, as it is , John17.2. then he is Dem confl'ituue , Dew creatsus, datut, not Deus masts: made, and crea- ted çod,'how then can hebe of the fame nature with God, who path all hehath givenhim in time ? Anfw. 2-77 IV. V. I.
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