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Nay, there is a nearer union then this, for this is only by covenant, but there is a union between the head and the members, that is a nearer union; the Church is not only flesh of Christs flesh, and bone of Christs bone, but it is the flesh of Christ, and the bone of Christ, it is the very fullness of the body of Christ, Eph. 1. 23. it is a high expression: Yea, and besides this, the Church is called Christ, mystical Christ: 1 Cor. 12. 12. For as the body is one, and hath many members, & all the members of that one body being many, are one body, so also is Christ; that is, The Church having many members, ought to be joined in union as the body; yea, there is yet a nearer union between Christ and his people, the in-being is mutual, Christ is in them, and they are in Christ, John 14. 20. You in me, and in you: The arm is in the body, but the body is not in the arm; the branch is in the vine, ⟨p. 409⟩but the vine is not in the branch; but here as the Saints are in Christ, so Christ is in them: and in regard of this near union between them, their reproaches may well be esteemed the reproaches of Christ.

Nay, there is a nearer union then this, for this is onely by convenant, but there is a union between the head and the members, that is a nearer union; the Church is not onely flesh of Christs flesh, and bone of Christs bone, but it is the flesh of Christ, and the bone of Christ, it is the very fulness of the body of Christ, Eph. 1. 23. it is a high expression: Yea, and besides this, the Church is called Christ, mystical Christ: 1 Cor. 12. 12. For as the body is one, and hath many members, & all the members of that one body being many, are one body, so also is Christ; that is, The Church having many members, ought to be joyned in union as the body; yea, there is yet anearer union between Christ and his people, the in-being is mutual, Christ is in them, and they are in Christ,