2. With respect to dependence on one head, Rom. 12.5. We being many are one body in Christ, and every one members of one another, that is, all things make up one body of which Christ is the Head; and are fellow members in respect of one another. As necessary and as desirable as it is to be united to God, to Life and Glory Everlasting, so necessary and desirable it is to depend upon Christ the Head: for no man after the entrance of sin can return to God, or enjoy God, without Christ the Mediator, John 14.6. I am the way, the truth and the life; no man cometh to the Father but by me, Acts 4.12. There is no other name under Heaven by which we can be saved but only Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. 3.11. Other foundation can no man lay but that which is laid Jesus Christ, 1 John 5.12. He that hath the son hath Life, and he that hath not the son hath not Life. God proclaimed from Heaven, Matth. 3.17. This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased, he being one God with the Father and the Spirit, of the same substance and essence, he only can procure, merit, and effect our union with God: He first assumed our nature, and united it to his own Person, and so became one flesh with us, but then all those that belong to that nature, if they believe in him, and enter ⟨p. 116⟩into his Covenant, are not only literally one flesh, but Mystically one body, and so also one Spirit, 1 Cor. 6.17. That is, by the bond of the spirit he hath brought them into the state and relation of a body to himself. To gather up all: Mans return to God is necessary to his blessedness, that he may be inseparably conjoined to him as his chiefest good, to this purpose the son of God assumed our nature in the unity of his person, and thereby bringeth about the union of the Church with himself as our Head, and our communion with one another in Faith and charity, if we desire to be blessed, and so is according to Christs Prayer, John 17.21. That they may be all one, as thou Father art in me and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, verse 23. I in them and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, so that as there is one God, and one Mediator between God and Men, and one Church united to Christ as his body; to this Church we must every one of us be united if we mean to be saved, and in the Church with Christ, and by Christ with God, therefore out of this Mystical body there is no Salvation.
2. With respect to dependance on one head, Rom. 12.5. We being many are one body in Christ, and every one members of one another, that is, all things make up one body of which Christ is the Head; and are fellow members in respect of one another. As necessary and as desirable as it is to be united to God, to Life and Glory Everlasting, so necessary and desirable it is to depend upon Christ the Head: for no man after the entrance of sin can return to God, or enjoy God, without Christ the Mediator, Iohn 14.6. I am the way, the truth and the life; no man cometh to the Father but by me, Acts 4.12. There is no other name under Heaven by which we can be saved but only Iesus Christ, 1 Cor. 3.11. Other foundation can no man lay but that which is layed Iesus Christ, 1 Iohn 5.12. He that hath the son hath Life, and he that hath not the son hath not Life. God proclaimed from Heaven, Matth. 3.17. This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased, he being one God with the Father and the Spirit, of the same substance and essence, he only can procure, merit, and effect our union with God: He first assumed our nature, and united it to his own Person, and so became one flesh with us, but then all those that belong to that nature, if they believe in him, and enter ⟨p. 116⟩into his Covenant, are not onely literally one flesh, but Mystically one body, and so also one Spirit, 1 Cor. 6.17. That is, by the bond of the spirit he hath brought them into the state and relation of a body to himself. To gather up all: Mans return to God is necessary to his blessedness, that he may be inseparably conjoyned to him as his chiefest good, to this purpose the son of God assumed our nature in the unity of his person, and thereby bringeth about the union of the Church with himself as our Head, and our communion with one another in Faith and charity, if we desire to be blessed, and so is according to Christs Prayer, Iohn 17.21. That they may be all one, as thou Father art in me and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, verse 23. I in them and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, so that as there is one God, and one Mediator between God and Men, and one Church united to Christ as his body; to this Church we must every one of us be united if we mean to be saved, and in the Church with Christ, and by Christ with God, therefore out of this Mysticall body there is no Salvation.
