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

Hence in the second place, It's horrible blasphemy which some would infer from Gods or Christs being in us, That they do not sin at all; They work not, but God or Christ in them. Calvin of old wrote against such Libertines, affirming, That by their horrid doctrines, they made God worse then the Devil: And of late there have been some, who have boldly vomited this poison of the red Dragon; let them commit never such abominable and notorious crimes, they do not sin, Why? Because Christ is in them: But though Christ live in the godly in a spiritual sense, yet they do not lose their personal being or operations: It's not Christ that repents or believeth in them, but they themselves, though he efficiently help to these duties, much less is it Christ that sinneth or commits iniquity in them.

Hence in the second place, It's horrible blasphemy which some would inferre from Gods or Christs being in us, That they doe not sinne at all; They work not, but God or Christ in them. Calvin of old wrote against such Libertines, affirming, That by their horrid doctrines, they made God worse then the Devil: And of late there have been some, who have boldly vomited this poison of the red Dragon; let them commit never such abominable and notorious crimes, they doe not sinne, Why? Because Christ is in them: But though Christ live in the godly in a spiritual sense, yet they do not lose their personall being or operations: It's not Christ that repents or believeth in them, but they themselves, though he efficiently help to these duties, much lesse is it Christ that sinneth or commits iniquity in them.

Thirdly, When Christ is said to be in us, this is not to be understood, as if he were bodily living in us, as if his body were received into our body; No, the body of Christ is now exalted at the right hand of God in glory. And howsoever the Lutherans do hotly dispute for the ubiquity of Christs body, yet that is to kick against the pricks. The Scripture is clear, That his body is so in Heaven, that it is not corporeally any where else. It's true, all believers do partake of whole Christ, of his Person, and therefore of his body, as well as of his Divine Nature; but the participation of his body is not after a bodily manner, he doth not live and dwell in us bodily. It's true, in the Virgin Maris womb, Christ was there once bodily, but not so in the wombs of other women; Neither had she been happy merely through that, had not Christ even then lived spiritually in her heart.