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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80745	The saints fulnesse of joy in their fellowship with God presented in a sermon preached July 21. 1646. before the Honorable House of Commons in Margarets Westminster, being the day appointed for thankesgiving for the surrender of Oxford. By the least of saints, and the meanest of the ministers of the Gospel, W. Cradock.	Cradock, Walter, 1606?-1659.	1646 (1646)	Wing C6765; ESTC R231691	24,702	43

to other see how neere the Father and the Child are how neere the Husband and Wife are one to another see what union is betweene the branches and the vine the members and the head nay one thing more see what the soule is to the body such is Christ and so neere is he and neerer to the person of every true beleiver as Paul saith I live not but Christ liveth in me as if he should say Jesus Christ is to my soule and Gal. 2. 20. body as the soule is to the body of a naturall man that acts quickens it naturally Beloved there is a marvellous neerenesse in this union Secondly it is the most reall union these things make for our joy for it was not in vaine that Christ spake of these things before he went to Heaven that their joy might be full I say it is a most reall union As there is a greater neerenesse so there is a greater reality in our union with Christ then is betweene any naturall things whatsoever they are but shadowes of spirituall things It is not a notionall union as some conceive that Christ and wee are united as the object is united to the understanding for when a man conceives of any thing that thing is united in an abstracted metaphysicall way to the understanding so hypocrites may have a great deale of union with Christ they may goe far and have much knowledge and light in the apprehension of spirituall things You may see the difference of this union by comparing that union an husband hath with his wife and that union which his minde and understanding hath with any other person it is not as when a mans understanding conceiveth of another woman by meere imagination and thought of her there is a kind of union betweene her and his understanding But this is another kind of union that is betweene a man and his wife by the bond and tye of Matrimony that is a reall union that is conceived by some to be the meaning of that place Hos 2. I will marry thee in faithfulnes judgement or in truth as some read it I will marry thee in truth I would not have you think the union betweene Christ and the Saints is nothing but a poore empty Notion or imagination but I will marry thee in truth i. thou shalt be my wise in reality as much or rather more really then man and wife are united by Marriage Thirdly It is a totall union that is betweene Jesus Christ and his poore Saints Oh this is full of comfort if you looke on it spiritually that is whole Christ is united to the whole beleever soule and body Thou hast all Christ whatsoever thou canst conceive to be in the Father or in Jesus Christ 't is really and wholly thine as I could give instances had I time out of Scripture Thou art one with him in his Nature in his Name thou hast the same Image and grace and Spirit in thee as he hath the same precious promises the same accesse to God by prayer as he thou hast the same love of the Father all that he did or suffered thou hast a share in it all is thine thou hast his life and death as the Apostle saith so on thy part he hath thee wholly thy Cor. 4. nature thy sinnes the punishment of thy sinnes thy wrath thy curse thy shame so he would have thee all thy wit thy wealth thy strength all that thou art or hast and canst doe for him so thou hast Jesus Christ It is a totall union My Beloved is mine and I am his whole Christ from top to toe is mine and all that I am have or can doe for evermore is his it is totall Lastly it is an inseparable union it can never be broken I will make saith God an everlasting Covenant with them that I will not turne away from them to doe them good I will put my feare in their hearts that they shall not depart from me Jeremiah 32. This is a glorious word but the poore Christian will say T is true thou wilt not turne away from me I know thou wilt not but I shall turne away from thee I turne every day towards sin and Satan Why saith God I will put my feare in thy heart tbat thou shalt not turne away from me we shall be kept together for evermore and never separated Thence Paul triumphantly challenges al enemies in heaven or rather in Hell to doe their worst to breake this knot Who shall separate us from the love of God in Christ shall tribulation Rom. 8. distresse famine c come all that can together and see if that blessed union betwene me Christ shall ever be broken or dissolved by all that you can doe Now Beloved a word or two of Use I will wave the other Question that happily would be necessary for the further opening of this Doctrine because I will not weary you you see what fulnesse of joy is and what this union is and by what you have heard already you may easily convince your selves that fellowship and union with Jesus Christ will bring fulnesse of joy to the soule The uses are these briefly The first is this you may hence behold if the Lord Vse 1 open your eyes for so it must be what a glorious state and condition God hath placed a Christian in a poore Saint be he never so meane or miserable otherwise in the eye of the world his condition what is it He is one with Jesus Christ as Christ is one with the Father There is a blessed place in Zachary where Jesus Christ is called Gods fellow Awake oh sword against my shepheard Zach. 13. 7. against the man my fellow Christ is one with the Father he is his fellow and every Saint is Christ's fellow he is anointed with the oyle of gladnesse above his Psal 45. 7. fellowes Christ is Gods fellow and wee are Christ's fellowes There is a kind of analogicall proportion not Geometricall of equalitie as they call it betweene Christ and Saints in every thing run them over in your thoughts and take a view of all Christ what he is in his Person in his glory in his Spirit in his graces in his Fathers love and in the accesse he hath to the Father in all these with what more you can imagine in Christ wee are in a sort fellowes with him Only with this difference that you may not stumble Christ hath the preheminence in all things every Col. 1. thing in its owne order The Father is above all and wee by him all comes from the Father first to Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 15. and all wee have is by Marriage with Iesus Christ and wee must abide in our union with Christ as he doth abide with his Father Moreover betweene him and the person of the Father there is an Essentiall union and ours is virtuall by the power of the Spirit of God he by his union hath all