Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

1. Agreement. The Prophet tells us, that two cannot walk together unless they be agreed, Amos 3. 3. Until Agreement be made there is no communion, no walking together, God and man, by nature (or whilst man is in the state of nature) are at the ¹greatest enmity; He declares nothing to us but wrath, whence we are said to be Children of it, that is, borne obnoxious to it, Ephes. 2 3. and whilst we remain in that condition, the wrath of God abideth on us, Joh 3. 36. All the discovery that God makes of himself unto us, is, that he is unexpressibly provoked, and therefore preparing wrath against the day of wrath, and the Revelation of his Righteous Judgements; the Day of his and sinners meeting, is called the day of wrath: Rom. 2. 5, 6. Neither do we come short in our enmity against him, yea we first began it, ²and we continue longest in it. To express this Enmity, the Apostle tells us, that our very minds, the best part of us, are Enmity against God, Rom. 8. 7, 8 and that we neither are, nor will, nor can be subject to him, our Enmity manifesting it self by Universal Rebellion against him, what ever we do that seems otherwise, is but hypocrisy or flattery, yea it is a part of this Enmity to lessen it. In this state the Wisdom of walking with God must needs be most remote from the soul; He is ^olight, and in him is no darkness at all: we are darkness, and in us there is no light at all. He is life, a living God; we are dead, dead sinners, dead in trespasses and sin: He is Holiness and glorious in it; we wholly defiled, an abominable thing: he is Love, we full of hatred, hating and being hated. Surely this is no foundation for agreement, or upon that, of walking together, nothing can be more remote then this frame from such a condition The foundation then of this, I say, is laid in Christ, hid in Christ, He, faith the Apostle, is our peace, he hath made peace for us,