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6. Where there are divers Bodies, and divers Souls, and divers Understandings, and divers Wills, there are divers Persons: But of all these, in Christ and us there is a diversity.

6. Where there are divers Bodies, and divers Souls, and divers Ʋnderstandings, and divers Wills, there are divers Persons: But of all these, in Christ and us there is a diversity.

I believe that the Union between Christ and the Glorified, will be nearer than we can well now conceive: But not such as will make us one and the same Person with Christ. I have read in Fanatic Fryers, such as Barbanson, and Benedictus de Benedictis, and in Gibienf the Oratorian, of our Deification, and being Goded with God, and that it is the only perfection to know no being but God: And I have read of such Heathen as Worshipped Demon-Gods, that once were men. And it is the top of the now prevalent Bruitism, or Sadducism, to believe that all Souls are but one God, and as Candles that are individuate by the Oily Matter, when extinct, are all ⟨image 77⟩one in the common Air; and that there is nothing but God and Matter. But I hope few good Christians will so far lose the knowledge of themselves, as to take themselves to be the same Person with him that is God: Angels forbade John to Worship them, tho' he took them not for God. Do those Churches exercise Discipline upon such as are one Person with Christ? Do they Excommunicate Christ for sin? No wonder that Dr. Crispe chargeth David as speaking untruth, for complaining of his sin, and Gods displeasure; tho' John says, He is a Liar that saith he hath no sin, and all God's Saints have professed Repentance; but I read not that Christ did ever Repent of sin.

I believe that the Ʋnion between Christ and the Glorified, will be neerer than we can well now conceive: But not such as will make us one and the same Person with Christ. I have read in Phanatick Fryers, such as Barbanson, and Benedictus de Benedictis, and in Gibienf the Oratorian, of our Deification, and being Goded with God, and that it is the only perfection to know no being but God: And I have read of such Heathen as Worshipped Demon-Gods, that once were men. And it is the top of the now prevalent Bruitism, or Sadducism, to believe that all Souls are but one God, and as Candles that are individuate by the Oily Matter, when extinct, are all