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Love causeth a moral and spiritual union, but this causeth a mystical union; other graces cause us to be like to Christ, but this makes us be one with Christ, and so have interest in what Christ hath interest in. What is all the world now to such a soul? where is all the bravery of it, or the malice and ⟨p. 160⟩opposition of it? The loss of outward things, or the enduring of afflictions, are great evils to those who have not interest in better; but to such as have interest in higher things, there is no great matter, though they lose lower.

Love causeth a morall and spirituall union, but this causeth a mysticall union; other graces cause us to be like to Christ, but this makes us be one with Christ, and so have interest in what Christ hath interest in. What is all the world now to such a soule? where is all the bravery of it, or the malice and ⟨p. 160⟩opposition of it? The losse of outward things, or the enduring of afflictions, are great evills to those who have not interest in better; but to such as have interest in higher things, there is no great matter, though they lose lower.

Fifthly, faith discharges the soul of the guilt of sin,¹ and that dreadful evil that follows upon it; It gets a general acquittance from God, a pardon of all sin, and remission of all punishment thereof, sealed in the blood of his Son: The soul being made just by faith, is able to live in the middest of many troubles. The just by faith shall live, so it is to be read, not the just shall live by faith, but being made just by faith, so as to stand just and righteous in the Court of Heaven, it now is able to live: Faith clears all between God and the soul; it may be there was long humiliation before, many prayers made in seeking of this, many tears shed, many duties performed; yet all this could not do, but the guilt lay on still; but as soon as faith comes, ⟨p. 161⟩