prefent State and Condition in Gf()}y~· 3 2 r And fartaer our thoughts cannot attain. This is that where– in the Glory of t!Je ,Humane Nature ofChrifi, cloth eifentially excel and differ from that of any other bleifed Creaturewhq.t~ . twer. And hereon other things do depend. For~ · · ~ 2."Hence the Vnion of the Humane Nature of Chrifl unto· God, and the Communications of God uhto it, are ofanother kind, than thofe of the bleifed Saints. In thefe things, name– ly, our Vnion with God, and his Communications unto us,. doth our Bleifednefs and Glory confifi. In this World Believers are united unto God by Faith. It is by Faith that they cleave unto him with purpofe ofheart. In Heaven it fhall be by Love. Ardent Love with Delight, Complacency and Joy, from a clear apprehenfion of Gods infinite Goodne_fs and Beauty now made prefent unto us, now enjoyed by us, fl1all be the principle of our eternal Adherence unto him and Union with him. His Communi– carious unto us here, are by an external efjiciency of Power. He·!communicates of himfelf unto us in the effects of his .~ Goodnefs, Grace and Mercy, by the Operations of his Spi. rit in us. Ofthe fame kind will all the Communications of the Divine Nature be unto us unto all Eternity. It will . be by what h~worketh in us by his Spirit and Power. There js no other way of the Emanation of vertue from God, unto any Creature. But thefe things in Chrifi are of another Nature. This Union ofhis Humane Nature unto God, is immediatein the Perfon of the Son; ours is mediateby the Son <is cloathed with our Nature. The way of Communications of the Divine .Nature unto·theHumane in his Perfon,is what we cannot com– pr~hend; we have no ~otion .of it; nothi~g wher~by i~ may _be tllufirated. There 1s nothmg equal to It, nothmg hke it in all the Works of God. As it is a Creature it mufl: fubfiil:. · in e~ernal dependance on God ; I?either .hath it any thing but what it receives from him. For this belongs eifentially unto the I
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