to the E P HE S1AN S. !hewed before) Chrifi is our Brothrer, which is no where fa id of _Angels, they~..., are no where called Brother; it is proper unto Mm, Heb. 2. Chnli IS our Huf- S;rm.XII. band : It is not faid of any of the /111gels, that Chnlt IS t_he1r Husband, and that~ God is a father to tnem by Adoption through the marnage With Chn_li; there is a nearer union that thefe fcarte.red onts have With God through Chnli, upon this fecond gathering. So there Is the Third Head explamed. . There is a fourth Head, and which lhall be, and de1erves to be the Corom& of this glorious fiory. They are fa id to begathered together iu Chrijl. Well, ;,. Chriff. What will this hold forth? It holdeth forth, that they are not only all gathered in Chrifi, as unto a Head, but they are gathered by vmue of him: Not only gathered to him, but m h1m, efliciently, memonoully, by fomething he hath done to gather all together again, when they were all lhat– teredin pieces, You heard howAU thmgs both m Heaven and Earth are ga– thered together, and fumm'd up in the Perfon of Chrili, who is the founder of this their gathering. We 111311 now fee, that ere he h1mfelf could effect a ga– thering together of All in Heaven and Earth, himfelf muli be made the SubjeG!: of a tatal fcattering : and as the gathering of All things in his Perfon, is the fundamental Medtum U1JJ01tH, means of union of All things elfe that are united to God by h1m; that fo this fcattering is the means of all that reconciliation of things fcattered, as hath been faid. Chrili had his .;,,;. too, he had his gathering again in his own Perfon ; and therefore a fcattermg firli that befel h1s own Perfon, and what is true of us, is firli true of him. And by virtue of this it was that we were All gathered ; for 'tis a fure R.ule , That what is done in us by him, the like was firft done for us in Chrift himfelf; as if we that are poor be made rich, it is becaufe he that was rich was made poor: So in like manner, if he would gather all thi11gs that are out of himfelf into one in himfelf, himfelf muft be fcattered in himfelf. As his Incarnation was the fum– ming up of All, fo his death the fcattering of All, and his R.efurredion is his ga– thering of All again ; and we had not God's defign compleat without all thefe. Now to {hew, that he was fcatter'd and lhatter'din All, but the Perfonal Union, Firft, That his death ,I it was a fcattering of him , it was a taking down all, as I may fo exprefs it. Indeed, the Union could ne_ver be taken down; the U– nion with the Godhead could never be di!Tolved', but it went as near as pollibly could be. You lhall fee the expre!lion the Scripture bath, ."fohu II .p,)2. when he fpeaks of gathering all in one that were difperft, he faith, he muft do it by his death. It is 1/tee.!J,ry, faith he, that Jefos fhQf<tddie for that Nati011. /lnd 11otfor that N ation oiJ/y; but that al(o hejho11ld gather together i11 one the Chil– drm of God, that w ere (tattered abroad. You know, that Death is a feparation of all things, and fo it was to Chrift, Were we cut off from God? Look that . phrafe, 'Dmt.g,t.6, Mt.Jliah jha!l ~e mt off. There _wa~ a divifion, a feparation made. There was thefe three thmgs fummed up m h1m, God, the Co11dttip11 of Altt,tls, the N atttre of MaJJ. They are all di!Tolved, there was a kind of di!To• lunon ; it came as nigh as could be, fo as he might !till hold a Perfonal union, for that was cece/Iary, firfl,God. God, you know, is called the Head of Chrili, 'Cor.IJ.1· Now, when as Jefus Chrift came to die, as we were cut off by Sin from God our Head, fo there was as near a cutting off of Chrift from God as pollibly could be. }.1y God, my God, why hajl tho_ufor[akm me, faith he ? J1y God, my God flill; yet he was turned enemy toh1m. Zach,, 1·7• Awake thou Sword againff the man that ts myfellow. He ftnkes him, runneth his Sword through his Soul. Here God was gone, yet God is his God !till. You fee here was one fca ttering of that was once fummed up in him, . . S5condly, All the Creatures left him; firft his Difciples, as it followeth there mZechary. Smtte the Shepherd and the Sheepjhaabeji:attered. Whe~ he hung upon the .Crofs, not an Angel durft cotne to comfort him; though wlulli 111 h1s Agony 111 the Garden, when the Curfe camenot on him unto its height, not fo Until he hung upon the Tree; and then when the Curfe came in its fulnefs upon lum, no A~gel did, or durft appear to comfort him. If the light of the Sun would comfort h1m, God Withdrew it: and in 'D.m.g.1.4. 'tis exprelly faid, the M e.Jli.eh h.td 1101 hmg. So m your Margins. 3· In . '
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