A55302:97
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 Branches are in the Vine, so are Believers in Christ. St. Austin saith of every Branch, Si in vite non est, in igne erit; 1If it be not in the Vine as a living Branch, it shall be in the fire as a dead one. Naturally all men are in the old stock of Adam, dead and withered branches, fit to be gathered up and cast into the fire; but the Holy Spirit (which fills the humane nature of Christ, and will not suffer such a Vine as he is to be without Branches) works Faith in men, and so implants them into him: Believers are said to be in him; they are not united to him mediately only, as being in the Church, which is his body; but immediately, as being mystical parts of him. A man (saith Theophylact) is by faith [Greek or Hebrew], part of the root, not merely tied to him by outward ordinances,2 but intimately joined and incorporated into him.
The Branches are in the Vine, so are Believers in Christ. St. Austin saith of every Branch, Si in vite non est, in igne erit; 1If it be not in the Vine as a living Branch, it shall be in the fire as a dead one. Naturally all men are in the old stock of Adam, dead and withered branches, fit to be gathered up and cast into the fire; but the Holy Spirit (which fills the humane nature of Christ, and will not suffer such a Vine as he is to be without Branches) works Faith in men, and so implants them into him: Believers are said to be in him; they are not united to him mediately only, as being in the Church, which is his body; but immediately, as being mystical parts of him. A man (saith Theophylact) is by faith 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, part of the root, not meerly tied to him by outward ordinances,2 but intimately joined and incorporated into him.
- 1In Job. Tract. 81.
- 2In Joh. 15.