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One error the Preface addeth to the hundred▪ which were it a truth, would carry the cause for them, and bring me to a recantation, viz. That Christ and the Elect are one and the same Person. It is not a Relative personality that is the question; for so Christ himself had many Persons, as one and the same man may have the Person of a Father, of a Husband, of a Master, of a King, &c. But it is Physical or Substantial Personality, which Mr. Crispe saith, is more than natural, we being one Spirit, and Bone of his Bone, and Flesh of his Flesh▪ And if this be so, I shall grant that we are as righteous as Christ, and Christ now in Heaven (and ⟨image 76⟩n•t on the Cross only) is guilty of all our sins, and was indeed as they call him, the greatest blasphemer, hater of God, adulterer, &c. in the World.

One errour the Preface addeth to the hundred▪ which were it a truth, would carry the cause for them, and bring me to a recantation, viz. That Christ and the Elect are one and the same Person. It is not a Relative personality that is the question; for so Christ himself had many Persons, as one and the same man may have the Person of a Father, of a Husband, of a Master, of a King, &c. But it is Physical or Substantial Personality, which Mr. Crispe saith, is more than natural, we being one Spirit, and Bone of his Bone, and Flesh of his Flesh▪ And if this be so, I shall grant that we are as righteous as Christ, and Christ now in Heaven (and ⟨image 76⟩n•t on the Cross only) is guilty of all our sins, and was indeed as they call him, the greatest blasphemer, hater of God, adulterer, &c. in the World.

But 1. If all the Elect be really many distinct Persons, ten, either Christ must be also as many distinct Persons, or not be the same Person with them al, or any of them. But the Elect are many distinct Persons, and shall be so for ever: Peter was not Paul or John: They do not the same Acts: They be not guilty of the same numerical sins: Every man shall answer for all that he hath done in the Body, and not for all that all others of the Elect have done. All the Elect shall not sit on the twelve Thrones, as Apostles: All did not Preach the Gospel as Paul did, nor Persecute as Paul did: Overthrow distinct idividuation here or in Heaven, and how dismal will be the consequence? And here, will not each man have right to another's House, Wife, Food, Goods, if they are but one Person?