Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

Thirdly, If thou hast this Faith, then art thou united ¹unto Christ and hast fellowship with him, thou art then knit to Christ as a man to his wife in a marriage bond, for thou must know that Christ is the believer in a spiritual and mystical manner, Rom. 8. 1. We first are in Christ, that is, when we once come to believe; and then Christ is in us (as it is vers. 10.) when his death kills the body of sin in us, and John 17 21, 23. I in them, saith Christ, and they in me, which show as in divers other places in like manner, that there is then an union, which is an infallible note that floweth immediately from the grace of faith once begotten & wrought in any poor soul, 1 Joh. 1. 3. They have fellowship with Christ, and with the father through Christ, if thou hast this faith, then is there a bond, that knits thee to God above all other in the world, and without this thou canst challenge no Salvation from Christ. let every one therefore examine if he have such a Faith in him, by which he may know whether he find Christ in him, or ⟨p. 164⟩himself in Christ, and so a blessed fellowship between them, and this thou mayest know, if thou findest not the world and sin working and reigning in thee, but the spirit of Christ having the rule and dominion in thee, Christ he is the ruler and governor of his Church and children; O blessed man that hast this, O blessed habitation to dwell in Christ, to be ingrafted and have an happy being and fellowship with Christ.

Thirdly, If thou hast this Faith, then art thou united ¹unto Christ and hast fellowship with him, thou art then knit to Christ as a man to his wife in a mariage bond, for thou must know that Christ is the believer in a spiritual and mystical manner, Rom. 8. 1. We first are in Christ, that is, when we once come to believe; and then Christ is in us (as it is vers. 10.) when his death kills the body of sin in us, and