Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

and at last we come to Gospel perfection even towards the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Is this all? nay, if my union be firm, and Christ live in me, why then I go on,¹ and in this condition I am dead with Christ, and I am buried with Christ, and I am alive again unto God through Christ, and I am risen with Christ, and I am glorified with Christ. Nay, yet more, my sufferings are Christs, Col. 1.24. and Christs sufferings are mine, Rom. 8.17. I am in Christ an •eir of Glory, Rom. 8.17. and Christ is in me the hope of Glory, Col. 12 7. O my Christ, my life, what am I, or what is my Fathers house that thou shouldest come down into me, that thou shouldest be conceived in the womb of my poor sinful heart, that thou shouldest give my soul a new and spiritual life, a life begun in Grace and ending in eternal Glory? I shall not reckon up any more privileges of this union, me-thinks I should not need; if I tell you of Grace and Glory, what can I more? Glory is the highest pitch, and Christ tells you concerning it, the Glory which thou gavest me, ²I have given them, that they may be one, even as we are one. Ah my brethren! to be so like Christ as to be one with Christ, it is near indeed: O let us conform to Christ in this; he is one with our nature in an hypostatical, personal union; let us be one with him in a spiritual, holy and a mystical union; if God be not in our persons as truly, though not as fully as in our nature, we have no particular comfort from this design of his personal, hypostatical, and wonderful union.

and at last we come to Gospel perfection even towards the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. Is this all? nay, if my union be firm, and Christ live in me, why then I go on,¹ and in this condition I am dead with Christ, and I am buried with Christ, and I am alive again unto God through Christ, and I am risen with Christ, and I am glorified with Christ. Nay, yet more, my sufferings are Christs,