340 The Living Temple. Part II. z. That if any will make ufe of Me- taphyfical ferns, they thould take them in the Senfe whereinMetaphyfclans ufe them ; which they do not, who fpeak of a Perfonal Onion, between Chrift, or the Spirit ofChr, and Believers. For by Perfonal ZUnion, is never wont to be meant, an Union of one Perfon with another; but an `Union of the fingular Nature, with this peculiar manner Sub - fìftence, whereby is conftituted one Per- fon : i. e. That by Perfonal `Union is meant, not the Subjeas of ' Únion, as if it only fignify'd, that feveral Per- fons, remaining diftin&, were yet, fame way or other, united with one another : Which, fo taken, were a ve- ry laxe ExprefIion ; and which, ac- cording to various Capacities, Perfon may admit of, would be ofvafl extent, and may reach to domeflical, political, and I knownot howmany more 7.Jni- ons ; which cannot but be much be- neath what fuch Men mull be under- flood to intend. But that Expreffion, Perfonal Iinion, means the refdt ofZi- nion, whereby the mentioned two, be- cote. one Perfon. And therefore, they that fpeak in this (11-it-ter, and more proper
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