Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

1. THIS Conjunction between him and the Church, did not arise from a necessity of Nature, but from a voluntary act of his Will. The Conjunction that is between all others is necessary. Every Man is every Mans Brother whether he will or no, by being a Man. Natural Generation communicating to every one his subsistence in the same Nature, prevents all acts of their own Will and Choice. With the Lord Christ it was otherwise as the Text affirms: For such Reasons as are there expressed, he did by an act of his own Will partake of Flesh and Blood, or came into this Conjunction with us. He did it of his own choice, because the Children did partake of the same. He would be what the Children where. Wherefore the Conjunction of Christ in humane Nature with the Church, is ineffably distinct from that common Conjunction which ⟨p. 110⟩is amongst all others in the same Nature. And therefore although it should not be meet amongst mere Men, that one should act and suffer in the stead of others, because they are all thus related to one another as it were whether they will or no; yet this could not reach the Lord Christ, who in a strange and wonderful manner came into this Conjunction by a mere act of his own.

1. THIS Conjunction between him and the Church, did not arise from a necessity of Nature, but from a voluntary act of his Will. The Conjunction that is between all others is necessary. Every Man is every Mans Brother whether he will or no, by being a Man. Natural Generation communicating to every one his subsistence in the same Nature, prevents all acts of their own Will and Choice. With the Lord Christ it was otherwise as the Text affirms: For such Reasons as are there expressed, he did by an act of his own Will partake of Flesh and Blood, or came into this Conjunction with us. He did it of his own choice, because the Children did partake of the same. He would be what the Children where. Wherefore the Conjunction of Christ in humane Nature with the Church, is ineffably distinct from that common Conjunction which ⟨p. 110⟩is amongst all others in the same Nature. And therefore altho it should not be meet amongst meer Men, that one should act and suffer in the stead of others, because they are all thus related to one another as it were whether they will or no; yet this could not reach the Lord Christ, who in a strange and wonderful manner came into this Conjunction by a meer act of his own.