The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, now preacher…The vvorks of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher…

Again, Though Christ be united unto all Believers by ⟨p. 82⟩his Spirit; yet he is so far united unto a believer, as to make him a member of the Body only: But the second Person was United unto our Nature, and unto our flesh to make Christ the Mediator. Indeed, if God were United to man for far as to make him Mediator between God and Man, then he might say, I am God, and I am Christ: but (I say,) this Union being Voluntary, he does so far Unite himself unto the soul of a Believer, as to make him a Member of the Body only, and not a Mediator. But when the Second Person was United to our Nature, the Union was to make the Person a Mediator. And thus ye see, there is a great deal of Difference between that Hypostatical Union, and this Mystical Union of a Believer.

Again, Though Christ be united unto all Beleevers by ⟨p. 82⟩his Spirit; yet he is so far united unto a beleever, as to make him a member of the Body only: But the second Person was United unto our Nature, and unto our flesh to make Christ the Mediator. Indeed, if God were United to man for far as to make him Mediator between God and Man, then he might say, I am God, and I am Christ: but (I say,) this Union being Voluntary, he does so far Unite himself unto the soul of a Beleever, as to make him a Member of the Body only, and not a Mediator. But when the Second Person was United to our Nature, the Union was to make the Person a Mediator. And thus ye see, there is a great deal of Difference between that Hypostatical Union, and this Mystical Union of a Beleever.

And whereas it is said, in that 17. of John, That Christ prays that we may be one with him, as he is with the Father: That they all may be one, as thou Father art in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one. I answer: This is an As of Similitude, and not of Equality: Christ prays unto the Father, that Believers may be one with him; not by way of Equality; that a Believer should be Equally one with Christ, as Christ is with the Father: for then Christ should pray, that a Believer might be worshipped too, which he never did: and if that Christ here should pray, that a Believer might be one with Christ, as Christ with the Father, in regard of Equality; then Christ should pray, that a Believer should be one with him from Eternity: for says he unto his Father in the beginning of the chapter, Glorify me with thy self, with the same glory which I had with thee before the world was. Christ was one with the Father before the world was. Therefore, if he should pray, that a Believer might be one with him, in regard of Equality, he should pray that a Believer might be one with him, in that respect: which were impossible. But he does not pray, that a Believer might be one with him, by way of Equality, as he is one with the Father by way of Equality, but Similitude. And yet divers Learned and Reverend men, think the meaning of that place rather to be this, That they may