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

1. Grace of Justification or acceptation with God, which makes a relative change in us, as a state and condition. 2. Grace of Sanctification or Holiness before God, which makes a real change in us, as to principle and operation. 3. Grace of Privilege, which is mixed, as we shall show, if I go forth to the handling thereof.

1. Grace of Justification or acceptation with God, which makes a relative change in us, as a state and condition. 2. Grace of Sanctification or Holinesse before God, which makes a reall change in us, as to principle and operation. 3. Grace of Priviledge, which is mixed, as we shall shew, if I goe forth to the handling thereof.

Now that we have Communion with Christ in this purchased §. 3 Grace, is evident on this single consideration; that there is almost nothing that Christ hath done, which is a spring of that Grace whereof we speak, but we are said to do it with him. We are Crucified with him Gal. 2. 20. we are dead with him: 2 Tim. 2. 11. Col. 3. 3. and buried with him: Rom. 6. 4. Col. 2. 12. we are quickened together with him: Col. 2. 13. risen with him: Col. 3. 1. He hath quickened us together with Christ and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in Heavenly places, Ephes. 2. 5, 6. In the actings of Christ, there is by virtue of the compact between him as Mediator and the Father, such an assured foundation laid of the communication of the fruits of those actings, unto those in whose stead he performed them, that they are said, in the participation of those fruits, to have done the same things with him. The life and power of which truth, we may have occasion hereafter to inquire into.