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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.
Again, The Spirit is the terminus, or ultimate object of these graces actuated: and this speaks the Inhabitation of God in us. As these Graces come from God as the fountain, so they terminate in him as the ultimate object. Holy fear terminates in his Majesty and Greatness. Faith terminates in his Truth and Mercy. Love terminates in his Goodness and Excellency. Every Grace moves to him as its great Centre. Where these Graces are actuated, there an Honour, an inward Worship is done to him; where that is in truth, there he hath a Temple in the heart, and objectively dwells there as in an holy place. Hence Aquinas saith, that God is in the Saints, sicut cognitum in cognoscente & amatum in amante; 1as an object known is in the knower, and an object loved is in the lover; by knowledge and love a man, attingit ad ipsum Deum, reaches to God himself; his heart becomes a Sanctuary for the Holy One. This is that inward Temple which the Primitive Christians ⟨p. 196⟩gloried in.2 When Pagans objected against them, that they had no Temples, no Altars, no Sacrifices; they made this answer, That they had all within, in themselves, in mental Consecrations, in a pure mind and heart. What was said of the Temple, that may be said of a Pious soul; There is Gods Name; there he is consecrated and sanctified; there he dwells as in a sanctuary or holy place.
Again, The Spirit is the terminus, or ultimate object of these graces actuated: and this speaks the Inhabitation of God in us. As these Graces come from God as the fountain, so they terminate in him as the ultimate object. Holy fear terminates in his Majesty and Greatness. Faith terminates in his Truth and Mercy. Love terminates in his Goodness and Excellency. Every Grace moves to him as its great Center. Where these Graces are actuated, there an Honour, an inward Worship is done to him; where that is in truth, there he hath a Temple in the heart, and objectively dwells there as in an holy place. Hence Aquinas saith, that God is in the Saints, sicut cognitum in cognoscente & amatum in amante; 1as an object known is in the knower, and an object loved is in the lover; by knowledg and love a man, attingit ad ipsum Deum, reaches to God himself; his heart becomes a Sanctuary for the Holy One. This is that inward Temple which the Primitive Christians