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Fourthly, By this Spiritual Union with Christ, we partake of his Blessed Image or Divine Nature: So that the Head and Members are of one kind, and not like Nebuchadnezzar's Image, a Head of Gold, and a Belly and Thighs of Brass, and Legs of Iron, and Feet and Toes, part of Iron and part of Clay: This would be to make the Mystical Body of Christ a Monster, an Immortal Head, an Incorruptible Head, and a Mortal Body and Members, that may corrupt, putrefy and become loathsome. No, this cannot be; such as is the Head (as to Nature and Quality) such is the Body, and every Member in particular, a living Head and living Members; a Head of pure Gold, and Members of pure Gold; also a Head that cannot die, and therefore the Members cannot die. For,

Fourthly, By this Spiritual Union with Christ, we partake of his Blessed Image or Divine Nature: So that the Head and Members are of one kind, and not like Nebuchadnezzar's Image, a Head of Gold, and a Belly and Thighs of Brass, and Legs of Iron, and Feet and Toes, part of Iron and part of Clay: This would be to make the Mystical Body of Christ a Monster, an Immortal Head, an Incorruptible Head, and a Mortal Body and Members, that may corrupt, putrify and become loathsom. No, this cannot be; such as is the Head (as to Nature and Quality) such is the Body, and every Member in particular, a living Head and living Members; a Head of pure Gold, and Members of pure Gold; also a Head that cannot die, and therefore the Members cannot die. For,

Fifthly, It is a Vital Union, as you have heard, that is to say, the same Life that is in Christ, is in all Believers: And as it is in the natural Body, the Members have not only Life in the Head, but Life in themselves also; and so long as there is Life in the Head, there shall be Life in the Members, so it is here: And this must therefore be for ever; for by the same parity of Reason that one Member may die or corrupt, the whole Body may die and corrupt also. But Christ is our Life, and the Spirit, which is the Bond of this Union, communicates Life to every Soul in whom he resides and dwells; and the Holy Spirit hath taken up his abode in Believers for ever: He that hath the Spirit, hath the Son; and he that hath the Son, hath Life.—I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in