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Another means is, The abiding of Christs word in us, John 15.7. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you: In the fourth Verse, our Saviour had said thus, Abide in me, and I in you, now repeating that again, he somewhat altereth it, and saith, If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you: I conceive the ground of the alteration is only this, because the abiding of Christs word in people is a means whereby Christ doth abide in them. By the words of Christ, I take it, is meant the Gospel of Christ, with all the commandments, instructions, and promises, that are contained in it: Now when this Word of Christ doth abide in people, which it doth when understood, remembered, practised, and observed, by this means Christ is said, and made to abide in them. The words of Christ are as so many plants which he doth ingraft into a poor soul, as we do ingraft Scions into a stock; Therefore the Apostle calls it the ingrafted word which is able to save your souls, Jam 1.21. Now look as the stock cometh to have the nature and to bear the fruit of the Scion, by having the Scion implanted and ingrafted into it; even so by ingrafting the word of Christ into us, we come to have the sap and life of the Spirit of Christ, and consequently Christ himself to abide in us.

Another means is, The abiding of Christs word in us, John 15.7. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you: In the fourth Verse, our Saviour had said thus, Abide in me, and I in you, now repeating that again, he somewhat altereth it, and saith, If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you: I conceive the ground of the alteration is onely this, because the abiding of Christs word in people is a means whereby Christ doth abide in them. By the words of Christ, I take it, is meant the Gospel of Christ, with all the commandments, instructions, and promises, that are contained in it: Now when this Word of Christ doth abide in people, which it doth when understood, remembred, practised, and observed, by this means Christ is said, and made to abide in them. The words of Christ are as so many plants which he doth ingraft into a poor soul, as we doe ingraft Cions into a stock; Therefore the Apostle calls it the ingrafted word which is able to save your souls, Jam 1.21. Now look as the stock cometh to have the nature and to bear the fruit of the Cion, by having the Cion implanted and ingrafted into it; even so by ingrafting the word of Christ into us, we come to have the sap and life of the Spirit of Christ, and consequently Christ himself to abide in us.