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Thirdly, they shall have union with God. Sight is higher then presence, and union is higher ¹then sight. John 17. 21. Christ prays to his Father, That they may be one in us, as thou art in me, and I in thee. For the opening of this union with God, you are to know that there is first an union that God hath with all creatures in general. Secondly, an union that he hath with the humane nature of Christ. Thirdly, the union that he hath with the Saints. First, the union that God hath with all creatures in general, and that union is twofold: An union ²of dependence; or an union of his immense presence: Of dependence, because all creatures in the world depend upon God for their being, and continuance of their being every moment, therefore there must be an union of God with them; for if the union of dependence were broke, every creature would fall to nothing. As the beams of the Sun have an union with the Sun, and the beams could not continue if they were not united to the Sun; so all the creatures have an union of dependence with God, without which they cannot continue. And then the union of immense presence, that must be, because God is in every thing, and every where; there is not the least spire of grass or stone, but there is a way of Gods immense presence in that. Secondly, there is another kind of union that God hath with the humane ³nature of Christ, and that we call an hypostatical union: for the humane nature, and the divine nature ⟨p. 548⟩to be united in one person, this is that the Saints and Angels of God shall be adoring God for to all eternity; that ever there should be such an union between the Deity and the Creature, that if it were not revealed to us in the word, it were impossible to be imagined by any creature. It is a great work of God to unite an immortal soul with such a base creature as our flesh is into one person; I do not know any one work of God in creation so great as this, and this is to be admired at: but if this be so great a work to unite a rational immortal soul into one person, with a corruptible piece of flesh, then to unite mans nature into one person with the second person in Trinity, this is a great work.