A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

2. Moreover, those that are United to Jesus Christ, and are become the living Members of his Body, are certainly safer then those that are yet strangers to him, and have no special interest in him: But all that are sanctified are thus united to Christ, and made his members: and all the unsanctified have no part in him. He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son hath not life, 1 John 5. 12. [John 15. 6, 7, 9, 10. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved ⟨p. 198⟩you; continue in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love:] Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you, v. 14.] Eph. 5. 25, 26, 27, 29, 30. [Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and •••a••• it, with the washing of water, by the word: that be might present it to himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish. No man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherry, •ath it, even as the Lord the Church. For we are Members of his Body, of his flesh, and of his bones.]

2. Moreover, those that are United to Jesus Christ, and are become the living Members of his Body, are certainly safer then those that are yet strangers to him, and have no special interest in him: But all that are sanctified are thus united to Christ, and made his members: and all the unsanctified have no part in him. He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son hath not life, 1 John 5. 12. [John 15. 6, 7, 9, 10