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Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its…
Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its resemblances, bonds, seals, privileges and marks by Edward Polhil ..., Esq.Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its resemblances, bonds, seals, priviledges and marks by Edward Polhil ..., Esq.
London: printed by A.M. and R.R. for Tho. Cockerill, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The next thing is the matter of the influence, I mean that which by it is derived to us; Christ the Head influences a Divine life, sense and motion, into his believing members.
He influences life into them. As long as they are in old Adam, they are dead in sin; but as soon as they are in Christ, they live: I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, Gal. 2.20. His spiritual life was not from himself but from Christ the Head, who communicated the Holy Spirit to him, and in that respect lived in him; neither was this peculiar to Apostles, but common to all Christians; Christ is their life, Col. 3.4. a Divine virtue from him makes them live; this was typed out in Elisha. No sooner did ⟨p. 100⟩the dead man touch his bones, but he revived and stood upon his feet, 2 Kings 13.21. No sooner do we by Faith touch Christ crucified, but there is a vital principle in us, a spirit of life, which discovers it self in the pulse of heavenly affections, and breath of spiritual prayer; and is a real proof and demonstration that. we have a living Head in Heaven, who makes us (in our selves but dead lumps of clay and corruption) partakers of a Divine life.
Again, he influences sense into them. There are interna [Greek or Hebrew], internal senses in them; some quickness in the fear of the Lord, some sight of the beauty and rectitude of his Holy Commands, some tastes of the Divine Love and Grace, some savourings of Christ and the Holy Unction, some experimental touches of the things above, some glimpses of Heaven and Glory; but all these are from the Head, else Believers would, as well as others, lie in the stupor of the fall, and be no more concerned about heavenly things, than about mere nullities. It's true, a man, not joined to the Head, may have a great notion of these things, but he hath no particular sense of them; the current of his affections is such, that, one would think, there were no other world but an outward sensible one; spiritual