460 QTJESTIONS CONCERNING JESUS. religion, thee -unity of: the true God, is. maintained inviolable: And thus we :mast 'effectually preclude all the objections and cavils' of the Arian and Soeinian writers against the doctrine of . the' blessed 'Trinity, and the deity of Christ, as though this doc- trine introduced more gods than one. For if we suppose the man .Jesus Christ in his soul and body to be both an intellectual and corporeal shekinahor habitation of the one God, the God of Israel, we may justly call Jesus Christ, God naanfést in the flesh ; '1 Tim. iii. 16. a man in whom dwells all the fulness of the godheadbodily ;; Col. ii. 9. a man of the seed of David, and yet God over all blessed for ever ; Rom. i. 3. ix. 5. Nor is there so much asthe appearanceor shadow of our owning two or three pods, which has been too often, and with some appearance of . reason charged upon some other modes of explaining this sacred 'doctrine. -Qeesr. V. Is there an intimate union between the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father. THOUGH I do not remember that. the words, unite; or taóioüs`, are any where found expressly in the. writings of the New Testament, yet the.idea which is designed by these words is often found in scripture : and it is the usual custom of the sacred writers to express this idea of the union of several things together by being one with another, or by one being in another, and sometimes by each being in the other mutually. The union between the body and the soulis represented by the soul's being in the body; 2 Cor. v. 6. at home in the body ; and xii, 3. whether in the body, or out of the body, 4-c. The union of saints to God is expressed by mutual inbeing; 1 John iv. 16. He that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God dwwelletla in him. Our union to Christ is often expressed by Christ-being in us and our being in Christ; John xv. 4; 5. Rom. xvi 7. and being in the Lot-d, verse 11. and in many other places. Sometimes union is expressed by both being one : so the saitrts who are all united in one common head are called one body iànd one bread; 1 Cor. x. 17. And as the union between man and wife is expressed by their being one flesh ; l 'Coe. vi. '16. só he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit, verse 17. The union between Jesus Christ andGod the Father is expressed by all these ways, viz. by an inbeing of Christ in the Father, and the Father in him, and by oneness with the Father, in the writ- ings of the apostle John. See John x. 38. 1 and my Father et It is granted that evoznr or unity is twice found in the NewTestament', viz. apt,. iv. 3, 13. but eaow or rwver is not used by the sacred weiten : Nor is ¡toznf used to 'signify the natal of twoïhings together into one.
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