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5 As members of a Head, and thus we nearly partake of the Divine Nature. ⟨p. 78⟩^oNow ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. Christ is the head, the Church is the body, the faithful are the members. What doth the head impart to the body? 1. Sense: he gives us eyes, we see not the mysteries of salvation without him; Lord enlighten mine eyes. Ears; we may hear Evangelium vitae, the Gospel of life; but not vitam Evangelii, the life of the Gospel without him. Lord, open mine ears. Taste; for we may have the Cup of blessing held to our mouth, and yet cannot taste the sweets of grace without him: Lord, make me to relish thy heavenly gift. Feeling; mans brain is said to have no feeling in it self, yet to give feeling to all parts. But Christ hath a feeling of our infirmities, and gives us a feeling of our own. Mortui non est sentire; We are naturally dead, and cannot feel our misery: it is Christ our head, that gives the life of sense, and the sense of life. 2. Intellectum; the head is the seat of understanding; we can have no comfortable knowledge of God but by Christ;^p Lord show us the Father, and it sufficeth us: Do thou show us, we can see nothing but by thy light. This is the true light, that lighteth every man that cometh into the world, Joh. 1.9. Hence it is, that no member can be ignorant, because he is joined to the Head. Though they cannot scire universa, know so much as the Head: yet they shall scire necessaria, know so much as shall make them blessed. 3. Motum; Christ our Head gives us motion.^q When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to me. If the Head be gone before, the members must needs follow after. We have Movere, from God by nature, Act. 17.28. but movere in bonum, to move to that which is good, from God to Christ. 4. Lastly, Vitam, life it self;^r for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. There is a quarrel between Philosophers and Physicians, about the principal seat of life; whether it be in the heart or in the head. But in Divinity the case is clear, for all our life is from our Head. I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God,