Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its…

There being in Faith a spiritual discerning, Christ is intellectually present with the Believer in an excellent manner; he is in some sort intellectually present with a man of notion; but with the Believer, he is present in a more divine manner; he appears in spiritual beauty; the Spirit glorifies him in the heart. Oh! what an one is our Immanuel? how sweet is his Name? how rich his Merits? how full his treasures of Grace? Every thing in him appears in a kind of ravishing glory; he is no longer looked on as a mere matter of speculation, but as an object to be for ever loved, chosen, embraced, adored by us; the notion of him doth not lie dead upon the heart, but lives and warms the inner man into holy admirations and affections towards him; we have not a light opinion, but a firm persuasion touching him and his Sufferings, we can certainly pronounce, This is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the ⟨p. 167⟩World. This is the Blood of the Covenant which made an atonement for us; we are as sure of it, as if these things were before our corporeal eyes and senses: nay, we are more sure than so; we see them in lumine veritatis primae, in the light of the first Truth revealing himself in the Gospel. This is the first step of Union. Christ is spiritually discerned; he is intellectually present with our minds in a very excellent manner.

There being in Faith a spiritual discerning, Christ is intellectually present with the Believer in an excellent manner; he is in some sort intellectually present with a man of notion; but with the Believer, he is present in a more divine manner; he appears in spiritual beauty; the Spirit glorifies him in the heart. Oh! what an one is our Immanuel? how sweet is his Name? how rich his Merits? how full his treasures of Grace? Every thing in him appears in a kind of ravishing glory; he is no longer looked on as a meer matter of speculation, but as an object to be for ever loved, chosen, embraced, adored by us; the notion of him doth not lie dead upon the heart, but lives and warms the inner man into holy admirations and affections towards him; we have not a light opinion, but a firm perswasion touching him and his Sufferings, we can certainly pronounce, This is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the ⟨p. 167⟩World. This is the Blood of the Covenant which made an atonement for us; we are as sure of it, as if these things were before our corporeal eyes and senses: nay, we are more sure than so; we see them in lumine veritatis primae, in the light of the first Truth revealing himself in the Gospel. This is the first step of Union. Christ is spiritually discerned; he is intellectually present with our minds in a very excellent manner.