mufl be Chrifl in Hohneffe. Vs R, SE I- planted in hima Spirit offaithfulneffe, and pittie for the cheerful' difcharge of this great Office, given him a pro- prietyuntous , madeus as neere and cdeare unto him as the members of hisfacred bodyare to one another; and therfores,vhofoevercommeth to him,with emptines,and hunger,and faith,he will in no wife call them out; it is as pofilble for him to hew oif,and too throw awaythe mem- bersofhis natural' body,to have anyof hisbones bro- ken, as to rcje& the humble and faithful' &fires ofthofe that duly waite upon him. Againe,from this ExaltationofChrifl in his humane nature wee fhould learne to keepe our yea's in holi- neffe and inhonor,as thofe who expeCi tobee fafhioned at the 'aft like unto him. For how can that man truly hope to bee like Chrifi hereafter, that labors tobee as unlike him here as hee can ? Shall / take themembers of Cbrill andmake: them the membersofanharlot?faith the Apode. So may I fay, {hall I take the nature ofChrift, that nature whichhe in his perfon bath fo highlyglori- fied ,and make it in my perfon thenature ofa devil' ? Ifa Prince fhould marry a meant woman, wouldheendure to fee thofe ofher neerefl kindred,her brethrenand fifiers live like fculliansor firumpets underhis owneeye? Now Chrifi bath taken our nature into a neerer union with himfelfe than marriage; for man and wife are fill two perfons, but God and man is but one Chrif. Death it felfe was not able to diffolve this union ; for when the fonle was feparated from the body, yet the Deltic was feparated fromneither : it was the Lord that lay in the grave,and he that afcended,was the fame that defcended into the lower part of the earth, Matt.28.6. F:ph.4. t o. and fhall we thendefile thisnature by wantonneffe, in- temperance, andvile affeetions, which is taken into fo indiffoluble an unitie with theSonne of God ? Chrifl tooke it to advance it, and it is fill byhis Spirit in us fo much the more advanced, by howmuch the neerer it comes
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