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And therefore once more, upon this account it is, that our Lord compareth this blessed Union to that substantial Union between the Father and the Son, that they may be one, as we are one, namely to express, as the reality and inwardness, so also, the indeficiency of this spiritual Union, as thou Father art in me, and I in thee. As, i.e. as fixedly, as inseparably, as immutably.

And therefore once more, upon this account it is, that our Lord compareth this blessed Ʋnion to that substantial Ʋnion between the Father and the Son, that they may be one, as we are one, namely to express, as the reality and inwardness, so also, the indeficiency of this spiritual Ʋnion, as thou Father art in me, and I in thee. As, i.e. as fixedly, as inseparably, as immutably.

This is the transcendent excellency of this Union above all others, it is Eternal. Indeed it had a beginning, but it shall never have an end. All other Unions may suffer a dissolution; a Whirl-wind may throw the house off from its foundation, ¹as we see in the case of Job's Children; a Bill of Divorce may dissolve the Union betwixt Man and Wife: in case of the violation of the Marriage Bed. ²An Axe may dissolve the Union between the Head and Members.

1. 1Job. 1.18, 19.
2. 2Math. 5.31, 32.