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Nor was this hidden from some of the Papists themselves. ¹Ecclesia sancta corpus est Christi una spiritu vivificata, unita fide una, & sanctificata. saith Hugo de Victore, de sacram lib. 2. as he had said before in the former Cap. sicut scriptum est qui non habet Spiritum Christi, hic non est ejus: qui non habet Spiritum Christi, non est membrum Christi: in corpore uno Spiritus unus, nihil in corpore mortuum, nihil extra corpus vivum. See to the same purpose Enchirid. Concil Colon in Symbol.

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With peculiar reference to the members themselves,¹ there is another necessary consequence of the union mentioned; ⟨p. 98⟩and that is the mutual love of all those united in the head as before towards one another, and of every one towards the whole, as so united in the head Christ Jesus; There is an increase made of the body to the edifying it self in love Eph. 4. 16. And so it becomes the bond of perfectness to this body of Christ. I cannot say, that the members or parts of this Church have their union in themselves by Love; because they have that with, and in Christ, whereby they are one in themselves Joh. 17. 21, 23. they are one in God even in Christ, where their life is hid Col. 3. 3. but it is the next and immediate principle of that communion, which they severally have one with another, and the whole body, in and with it self. I say then that the communion which the Catholic Church, the mystical body of Christ, hath, with and in it self, springing from the union, which it hath in and with Christ, and in it self, thereby, consists in love, exerting it self in inexpressible variety, according to the present state of the whole, its relation to Christ, to Saints and Angels, with the conditions and occasions of the members of it respectively,