Andmy Be/o'7Jedis mine. in Chrift, and there is one and the fame Spirit in S BR .XIX. the whole Church and every particular Chriftian: As in pipes;though ef different founds, yet there is rhe fame breath in them. So Chrifiians may have different founds from the greater or ldfer ftrength ofgrace that is in rhe one :md in the other, but all comes from the fame breath, the fame Spirit.- The Spirit in the Bride faith RcY,l.z. come, the-whole Church faith it,and eve1y par- . ticular Chriftianmufi fay ir;becaufe as thebody is atted by one Spirit, and makes but_one natu– rall body)though confifl:ing of many parrs wea· ker and fironger. So fi10uld there be aharmony in this myfiica.tl body aded by that one Spirit of Chrifi, who fo regards all, as ifthere were but one,and regards every one fo, as he cloth not for– getthewhG>le, Sic1mnihru Attentus Nt non deten– tr~,&c.Chrifi foatrends to all, that he is not de– tained from any panicular, and he fo attends every particular that he is not rdhained from all, there is the fame love to all as to orie1 and to every one, as if there were no other, he fo loves each one,that every Chrifiian may fayas well as the whole Church, Chrifi is mine, and I am Chrifis. ~ In thofe things that we call H~mlgtni•ll,there · is the fame nature in each q;1inticy as in.the whole:Asthe1·e is the fame nature in one dropof water as in the whole Ocean,all is water,and the fame refp<tl: of a fp:trke, and of all th~element ' r of fi ~e : fo Chri£~ beares the fame refpect to 1 the Church as to every particular'" and toeve r 1 ry ~ .... -- -- ~- -
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