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

1. When Christ is said to be in his people, That is not to be understood, as if there were a confusion of their beings, or as if they were made one real and physical person with him; for thus some have dangerously affirmed, That we are Christed with Christ, and made one real person with Christ. It is true, Christ and ⟨p. 622⟩his people make up one spiritual and mystical Person; They are not to be considered as two, no more then the Head and the body, yet it's an heinous error, as also high non-sense, to affirm such a being of Christ in us, as that we are turned into Christ. There are among the Popish devout Writers, those that are called M•sti•i Theologi, as if they only did enter into the Holy of Holies, and all other Writers were but mere literarists, and these speak much of such raptures, and elevation of the soul, that in these pangs it doth lose its own being, and is transessentiated into God: Many sublime and unintelligible expressions they have, such as the Paracelsians amongst Physicians: Now what these say about God, many have an imitating language of in respect of Christ, but when Christ is said to live and dwell in us, you must not conceive, as if we were turned into Christ, or Christ in us; we must not fancy such an imagination as the Papists do about Transubstantiation, thinking that the bread is turned into the very body of Christ.

1. When Christ is said to be in his people, That is not to be understood, as if there were a confusion of their beings, or as if they were made one reall and physical person with him; for thus some have dangerously affirmed, That we are Christed with Christ, and made one reall person with Christ. It is true, Christ and ⟨p. 622⟩his people make up one spiritual and mystical Person; They are not to be considered as two, no more then the Head and the body, yet it's an hainous errour, as also high non-sense, to affirm such a being of Christ in us, as that we are turned into Christ. There are among the Popish devout Writers, those that are called M•sti•i Theologi, as if they onely did enter into the Holy of Holies, and all other Writers were but meer literarists, and these speak much of such raptures, and elevation of the soul, that in these pangs it doth lose its own being, and is transessentiated into God: Many sublime and unintelligible expressions they have, such as the Paracelsians amongst Physicians: Now what these say about God, many have an imitating language of in respect of Christ, but when Christ is said to live and dwell in us, you must not conceive, as if we were turned into Christ, or Christ in us; we must not fancy such an imagination as the Papists do about Transubstantiation, thinking that the bread is turned into the very body of Christ.