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Of
the
Union of
Chrift
and.
his
Members.
C.
VII. *:I
1,11,13.
Chrift,is from
their
Eating
my
flefl, and Drinking
my
blood;
But
how may this
r
95
be
donee
Many
were
of
this
laying
was
fpoken
:
neere and
dole
trialls of
fincerity,
drive hypocrites into
Apoftafy;
from
his
Chrift takes away
this
fcruple
v63.it is(faith he)thefpirit that
quicl¿neth, the
flefh
profiteth
Writhing:
It
is
by the Indwelling
of
the
quickning Spirit,whereby we have
.a
reali
par-
ticipation
of
Chrift, whereby he
dwelleth
in
us,
and
we
in him;
So,
3.
He prayes for
his
Difciples
Zoh.
17.21.
that
they may
be one as
the
Fa-
§.
I
t.
ther
in him,
and
he
in the
Father, that
they may
be one
in
the
Father and
Sonne,
and v.22. let
them
be
one,
even
as
we
are
one;
And
that
yee
may
not think
that
it
is
only
union
with, and among themfelves,
that
he
preffes
for,
(though
indeed
that
which gives
them
Union with
Chrift
,
gives
them Vnion one
with
another
alto,
and
that
which conftitutes
them
of
the
Body,
unites them
to the
Head,&
there
is
one
Body,becaufe,there
is
one
spirit
Eph.4.4,.which
even
Lom-
bard
himfelfehad
fome
notion of, in
his
Affertion,
that
Charity,
which
is
in
us,
is
the
perfori
of
the
Hely Ghoft,from
that
place
of
the
Apofle
God
is
Love
;)
I
fay, he
farther
manifefts,
that it
is
Union with
himfelfe, which
he
intends v.
23.
Sin
them
(faith he)
and
thou
in mee.
This
Vnion
then with him,our Savi-
our
declares
by, or at
leaft
illuftrates by refemblance
,
unto
his
union
with
the
Father.
Whether
this be underftood
of
the
Union;
of
the Divine Perlons,
of
Father and
Sonne,
in
the
Bleffed
Trinity
(
the
Union I meane,
that they
have with themfelves,
in
their
diftintf Perfonality; and
not their
Unity
of
Effence)
or the Union,which
was
between Father, and
Sonne as
Incarnate
,
it
comes all to
one,
as
to
the Declaration
of
that
Union
we
have with
him:
The
Spirit
is Vinculum
Trinitatis,
the
Bond
of
the
Trinity,
as
is
commonly, and
not
ineptly fpoken; proceeding
from
both
the other Perlons
,
being
the
Love
and
Power
of
them
both,
he
gives
that
Union
to the
Trinity
of
Perlons,
whofe
fubflratum and
Ground,
is
the
ineflimable
unity
of
Effence,
wherein they are
one.
Or
if
you
takeit
for
the
Union
of
the Father
with the Sonne Incarnate,
it
is
evident and beyond inquiry
or
difpute,
that,
as
the
PerfonallUnion
of
the
Divine
Word,
and
the
Humane
Nature, was
by
the
Affemption
of
that Nature
into
onePerfonall
Subftance
with it
felfe5
fo
the
Perlon
of
the Father
hath
no
other
union
with the Humane
Nature
ofChrif,
iinmediatly, and not by the
Union
of
his
own
Nature thereunto,
in
the
Perlon
of
his
Sonne, but what
conftfts in
that
Indwelling
of
his
Spirit, in all fulneffe, in
the
Man Chrift
Jefus-
Now
faith our Saviour, this Union
I deftre
they
may
have with mee, by
the
dwelling
of
the
fame Spirit in me
and
them,
whereby
I
am in
them, and they
in me,
as
I am
one
with thee O Father.
2.
The
Scripture
Pets
forth
this Union by many Illuflrations, given
unto it
0.
la.
from.
the
things
of
the
neereft
Union,that are
fubje&
to
our
apprehenfion,
gi-
ving the verytermes
of
the
things
fo
united, unto Chrift and
his,
in
their Uni-
on,
I
(hall name fome few
of
them.
i.
That
of
Head
and
Members
making up one
Body,
is
often
infifted
on:
ß. 131
Chriff
is the
Head
of
his
Saints,
and
they being many
are
Members
of
that
one
Bo-
dy,
and
of
one
another,
as
the
Apofile
at large i
Cor:
12.12.
even
as
the
Body
is
one,
andhath
many members,
and
allthe
members
of
that
one
body, being
many,
are
one
body, fo
is Chrifl;
The
body is
one,
and
the:Saints
are one
Body
,
yea
one Chrift,
that
is
myfticall.
They
then are
the
Body:
what part
is
Chrift?
He
is
the
Head
I
Cor,
I
I.3.
the
Head
of
every
man
(that
is
every Believer)
is
Chri
fí;
He
is the Head
of
the
Church,
and
the Saviour
of
the
Body;
F
phef
5.
2
3. he
is the
Head
ofthe
Body
the
Church,
Col
:1.,19.
This relation
of
Head and Members
(I
fay)
between
Chrift and
his,
holds
out the Union that
is
between
them,
which
confifts
in
their being
fo. As
the Head and the
Members make
one
Bo
-'
dy,
fo
Chrift and his Members make
one
myflicall
Chrift; Whence then
is.
it
C
c
2
that