Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition…

1. With respect to union, as in man all the members make but one Body, quickened by the same soul, so in the Mystical body of Christ all the parts make up but one body, animated by the same vital principle ⟨p. 114⟩which is the spirit of Christ, and are joined together by certain bonds and ligaments, Faith and Love, and all is covered with the same skin, the profession of the Faith of Christ. Look what the soul is in man, the form in the subject, life in the body, and proportion in the building; that in the universal Church of God is the Union and Communion of the several and single parts, with the head among themselves. Take away the Soul from man, the form from the subject, life from the body, proportion and conjunction from the parts of the building, and what will man be but a Carcass, and the building but ruin & confusion? So take away union and communion from the universal Church, then Jerusalem will become a Babel, and Bethel a Be•haven, and for Life there will be death, and for Salvation eternal destruction. How else shall all that come out from one, return again to one, and all and every one have all things in one; that at length they may acquiesce in the enjoyment of one, that is God, as their chiefest good. Alas, without this union with the head, and among themselves in necessary things, what can they expect but wrath and the curse, and Everlasting destruction.

1. With respect to union, as in man all the members make but one Body, quickned by the same soul, so in the Mystical body of Christ all the parts make up but one body, animated by the same vital principle ⟨p. 114⟩which is the spirit of Christ, and are joyned together by certain bonds and ligaments, Faith and Love, and all is covered with the same skin, the profession of the Faith of Christ. Look what the soul is in man, the form in the subject, life in the body, and proportion in the building; that in the universal Church of God is the Union and Communion of the several and single parts, with the head among themselves. Take away the Soul from man, the form from the subject, life from the body, proportion and conjunction from the parts of the building, and what will man be but a Carkass, and the building but ruine & confusion? So take away union and communion from the universal Church, then Ierusalem will become a Babel, and Bethel a Behaven, and for Life there will be death, and for Salvation eternal destruction. How else shall all that come out from one, return again to one, and all and every one have all things in one; that at length they may acquiesce in the injoyment of one, that is God, as their chiefest good. Alass, without this union with the head, and among themselves in necessary things, what can they expect but wrath and the curse, and Everlasting destruction.