CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

First, It is good to Consider what synonymous or equivalent expressions the Scripture hath to represent this Unity; And we read of an emphatical one, 1 Cor. ⟨p. 587⟩6.17. [Greek or Hebrew], He that is joined to the Lord; The metaphor is from glue, that doth so closely and inseparably join things together, He is made one Spirit, Is not this a wonderful expression of that intimate Union the believer hath with God? He is made one Spirit with him not essentially as if he were made infinite, omniscient, &c. but as it were morally, as they say, Amicus est alter ego: Another word is [Greek or Hebrew] 1 Joh. 1.2. Truly our fellowship is with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ: Thus 2 Pet. 2.4. we are said to be [Greek or Hebrew], partakers of the divine nature, and often we read of the [Greek or Hebrew] of the Communion of the holy Ghost; This Communion indeed is a consequent of our Union, our Union is the Foundation of our Communion, although the word doth not only signify Communion but Communication sometimes, howsoever this signifieth the unspeakable privilege the godly have by their Union, that now all things do become theirs which Christ hath, our mala and his bona are communia; We cannot fall and perish unless Christ also be destroyed with us; A last word I shall instance in is [Greek or Hebrew], Rom. 6.5. and hereby is intimated our co-planting into him, and this the similitude of the Olive-Tree, and the Vine doth admirably represent, and certainly there is no kind of Union scarce but the Scripture expresseth our Unity with Christ by it, as that of the Head and the body, of a Foundation and building, of a Vine and its branches, of a Husband and wife, to show hereby the Excellency and fullness of it, every one of those unions having something that another hath not; As David doth attribute several Titles to God, of a Shield, Rock, Tower, &c. to show that God was all things to him; Thus is Christ all Unions to the godly, as I may so say.

First, It is good to Consider what synonimous or equivolent expressions the Scripture hath to represent this Ʋnity; And we reade of an emphatical one,