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

A double union with Christ may be noted; the one is, [Greek or Hebrew], in appearance only: Thus the mere professor is united to him; living in the Church and coming to the Ordinances; he looks like a member of Christ, and is (as our Saviour speaks, Joh. 15.6.) [Greek or Hebrew], a quasi, branch in him; he seems to be such, but in truth is not so; he hath not the Spirit of Christ, and so is none of his; he is in union with sin, and in that state cannot be in union with Christ. What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? what communion hath light with darkness? Bellarmine, who holds hypocrites to be members of Christ, confesses, that they are but membra mortua, dead members; which is as much as to say, they are but equivocal members, or rather none at all. Membrum mortuum est membrum pictum, saith Aristotle, a dead member is but a painted one. Upon this account other learned Papists (as Melchior Canus) will not have them to be members at all, but only parts; members (say they) cannot be without life, but parts may. St. Austin best of all saith,^* That they are but as evil humours in the body, Aut in membris sumus, aut in humoribus malis; either we are among the members, or among the humours: hypocrites are but as corrupt ⟨p. 6⟩[…] ⟨p. 7⟩[…] ⟨p. 8⟩humours in the Church, they do not fill up the Body of Christ, but corrupt and deturpate it; putatively they belong to Christ, but really to Satan.

A double union with Christ may be noted; the one is, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in appearance only: Thus the meer professor is united to him; living in the Church and coming to the Ordinances; he looks like a member of Christ, and is (as our Saviour speaks, Joh. 15.6.) 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a quasi, branch in him; he seems to be such, but in truth is not so; he hath not the Spirit of Christ, and so is none of his; he is in union with sin, and in that state cannot be in union with Christ. What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? what communion hath light with darkness? Bellarmine, who holds hypocrites to be members of Christ, confesses, that they are but membra mortua, dead members; which is as much as to say, they are but equivocal members, or rather none at all. Membrum mortuum est membrum pictum, saith Aristotle, a dead member is but a painted one. Upon this account other learned Papists (as Melchior Canus) will not have them to be members at all, but only parts; members (say they) cannot be without life, but parts may. St. Austin best of all saith,