faile him Nature springs from Adam as Gods liuing instrument And sin also comes from Adam and from sinne death Euen so also grace is from Christ iustice and holinesse imputatiue and inhesiue true life and liberty victory ouer death at last victory ouer the world in this life and all future felicity proceede from Christ as from their Authour or Spring-head from whence they flow There is much liberty in the world there is a peace of worldlings many honours and outward fauours giuen them by GOD but not through Christ Many men haue had victories from God as Nebuchadnezzar Caesar Pompey Tamerlane the great Turkes and many moe vnbeleeuers but not through Iesus Christ But spirituall peace liberty life health ioy victory and saluation no man hath but by Iesus Christ or Lord. So then if we were not of Adam and had not Adams nature in vs and sinne which doth defile it we should neither be men nor sinnefull men and so not men subiect vnto death Euen so if we were not members of Christ sprung from him as our head and had him not in vs and with vs we could not bee Christian men we could not bee spirituall and holy we could not bee vnder grace but vnder the Law we could not bee free but bond-men wee could not be iustified we could not be saued A man therefore that would haue life light grace and glory and so become a true blessed man must needes haue Christ his head hee must needes be his member he must needs be coupled with him and issue from him as well as sinners to make them men and sinners haue their father Adams nature in them and that which doth infect and poyson it Now Christ is the head of the Church as hee is both God and Man Euen so wee who are his members are vnited to him as hee is both God and Man Christ God and Man dwelleth in vs and we dwell in Christ who is God and man We are partakers of both his natures diuine and humane Christ is in vs as touching both and wee are in him as touching both hee in vs and wee in him and both fast knit together But this must be wisely vnderstood and for the cleering heereof I will speake a little yet more fully and punctually by the helpe of Christ who is abundantly able beyond all to vnfolde and define what this vnion is and to answer all the questions that may bee put about it First it is readily granted that the diuine nature of Christ filleth heauen earth and is essentially all the world ouer present whole in all places and at all times Secondly that very Man Iesus Christ the Virgins Sonne hath the diuine nature by hypostaticall vnion so that in the person of the eternall Sonne of God which is not double but single the two natures diuine and humane are vnited fast together and for euer the humane beeing receiued into God hauing neuer had any personall subsistence out of the person of the Sonne of God A certaine similitude thereof is in the Misselto which as Pliny writeth growes not but in a Plant of another kinde Indeed wheras the Misselto may be pluckt by force or stubbed vp out of the plant it grows in the humane nature of Christ cannot be seuered from the Word Thirdly the Coniunction of the flesh with the Deity is extended as far as the Deity it selfe For the Deity is no where seuered from the Man-head but yet the actuall Position of the flesh is restrained and tied to a certaine place Doubt not sith Saint Austin but that the man Christ Iesus is now in that very place from whence hee shall come in the same for me and substance of flesh which he carried thither and from which he hath not taken nature but giuen thereunto immortality According to this forme hee spreddeth not out himselfe into all places For it behooueth vs to take great heede lest while wee goe about to maintaine the glorious Deity of him which is man wee leaue not the true bodily substance of man So then tho the flesh bee actually seated there or there not euery where yet it is euery where ioyned to the Godhead which filleth the whole world and no place no not hell it selfe doth hinder that Coniunction But though wee cannot say that the Man-head of Christ is euery where present yet we may truely say that the man Christ is euery where present because that person is euery where present from whose God-head the Man-head is no where separated or because this man is very God and so by his Deity he is omni-present tho in his humanity hee bee but in one particular space or place at once So by reason of the hypostaticall vnion wee may say the man Iesus is eternall is omnipotent is God is Mediatour betweene God and Man But wee cannot so speake of his mans nature Fourthly the flesh or humane nature of Christ or Christ as he is a true man consisting of soule and body now knit together may bee rightly sayd to hee euery where present as touching co-operation with the God-head and that in all things For the diuine nature of Christ which before his incarnation wrought all things without the man-head doth now worke nothing wherein the man-head which he hath assumed is either absent from it or idle He which came downe from heauen and descended into hell is ascended into heauen that sitting at the right hand of God inuested with all maiesty might power honour and glory hee might from thence gouerne and dispose all things and fill his Church with the gracious and blessed fruites of his sauing presence His humane nature before his glorious Ascension and Session was not without the possession of this power but the full vse and exercise thereof was suspended till his humiliation which had before vailed Maiesty was ended and laide aside For the Session at the right hand of his Father is the actuall exercise of that power and regency wherein his Man-head was ioyned and matched with his Godhead This regencie and dominion hee now exerciseth both as God and man as God by essentiall presence with all things as Man by cooperation with his Godhead which is essentially all the world ouer I say then that the Manhead of Christ cooperates with his Godhead to which it is personally ioyned For the humane will of Christ assenteth to althings which his diuine will affecteth and willeth what the diuine dislikes And from his humane vnderstanding nothing which his Deity worketh is concealed so that by knowledge and assent the soule of Christ is present with all things which his Deiry worketh And as concerning his very bodie of flesh seeing it is the Body of God and personally vnited to the Godhead of the Sonne of God by whom it was also made a propitiatorie Sacrifice for the sinnes of the whole world it therefore receiueth a Presence of force and efficacie by reason of the said
Diuells haue a tyrannizing power when God permits But besides this vnion of vniuersall Dependance there is also another kind of Coniunction whereby not onely all Christians but all other men also yea and all the creatures in the world are vnited or ioyned vnto Christ as God For the Deity by reason of the immensitie and subtilty thereof is most fully and most inwardly totally present in and to and throughout all creatures corporall and spirituall comprehending all things but comprehended of nothing piercing all things but pierced of nothing and is farre more thoroughly present and more fully then either light or heate is in the aire or then the soule is in the body So that if that should bee which yet cannot be that is to say if the creature did not depend on Christ yet by reason of the all-piercing subtilnesse and vnmeasureablenesse of his Godhead he should penetrate and fill all things it selfe being fill'd of nothing and be most inwardly and thoroughly present vnto them and so be in some sort conioyned with them But this Coniunction is common that of true dealing Christians and Christ Iesus is speciall and proper to them This Coniunction is of the Creature to Christ as God but the other is of man to Christ God-Man or Man-God Mediator betwixt God man Here Christ is present by a most inward and thorough penetration his very Deity inclosing touching and piercing all things But there hee is present by the presence of supernaturall grace yea and his very flesh is not away or wanting but present as I will declare hereafter The Coniunction which is by penetration and omni-presence makes no man happy as the other doth with the which whosoeuer is vnited vnto Christ he is certainely in the state of grace and liues in sure hope of the state of glory And whereas the vnion of Christ and a Christian is indeed a true and certaine vnion and may properly bee so called this Coniunction by penetration and presence doth not properly conteine any vnion but onely vbiquity indistancy and an insensible but thorough repletion of all things There are not two Christs but one and this one Christ hath two distinct natures in him one Diuine the other Humane and both these names are vnited together in one and the same person by a personall vnion But we are not so vnited to Christ as our nature is to the nature of God in Christ I call Christs humane nature ours because it is indeed ours not in number the same with any mans but in kinde the same with all mens indued with a true humane soule and body not being created a new of nothing or from another peece of clay but made of a woman who came from the loynes of Adam For by the vertue of this vnion which is Hypostaticall God is man man is God But if Christians were vnited personally to Christ then the very name of Christ and God should be giuen to them which were absurd to think And which were very grosse and horrible then also God might bee as truely and as orthodoxally said to sinne when a Christian man sinned as it is said that God died was crucified and rose againe because the man who is true God in one person our Lord Iesus Christ was crucified died rose againe Though it be true that Iesus the Sonne of the blessed Virgin Mary be the true and eternall Son of the eternall and true God yet it were false and impious to say that the Church is the eternall and true naturall Daughter of God or that euery true belieuer were Gods naturall Son or God which yet were so if wee were personally vnited to the Godhead There are many Maries mothers but only the Virgin Mary was the mother of God I doubt not but that Christ is formed and is in forming in many a Ladies heart but yet hee was onely formed in that Ladies wombe as a childe Her childe onely is the naturall Sonne of God he onely is the Word the substantiall the consubstantiall and coeternall Word But if we were personally vnited to the Word or to the God head or to both Godhead Manhead in the Word then might we be called the Word of God and God yea and the Virgin Mary might bee said to be our mother as well as the mother of God yes and wee could not but be full of merits power and vertue euen as Christ But what pious eare can indure to heare such blasphemies Moreouer though it be most true which our Sauiour saith I am in my Father and you in mee and I in you yet wee must not thinke that wee are hypostatically vnited vnto Christ nor that we are so in Christ as Christ is in his Father This speech therefore of Christ must bee taken with a graine of falt For Christ is in his father as being of one and the selfe-same substance and nature with his Father being indeede the brightnesse of his glory and the very character of his Person and his true naturall Sonne and substantiall image but he is in vs as an helper ayder and susteiner by whom we haue our spirituall being life breath sense and motion and who beares vs vp and feeds vs as the roote doth the body and branches of a tree Furthermore there is a certaine vnion of the workeman and his toole of the hand and the instrument in it And thus by way of similitude Christ and all faithfull Christians who are instruments of his praises and whom he holdeth in the right hand of his power and protection bearing them as an Eagle doth her yong ones may be said to be conioyned And as in an instrument of musique tho one winde giue a generall sound yet by the diuersity and disequality of the pipes and organes all which the wind filleth the tones are varied so though one Christ be in all true Christians one spirit be inspired as a celestiall and liuing winde into them all yet they differ in their tunes actions motions and iubilations according to their owne personall and particular capacities and as the Spirit who workes not as a naturall but as a voluntary agent doth impart and diffuse his grace But whereas a sword lute trumpet and other instruments of Art are voide of life Christians are liuing and breathing Organs intellectuall spirituall and voluntary instruments for Christ to worke with and are liker a mans hand or other liue-member of his body then a sword of steele or other senselesse and dead instrument voide of reason sense life and will able to do no more then it is made to do by plaine force And whereas the workeman doth not nor cannot alwaies make or mend his toole Christ doth alwaies both make and mend his tooles For wee are his workemanship Hee hath made vs and not we our selues He that makes himselfe is alwaies marr'd in the making And he that teaches himselfe hath a foole for his master And whereas a workeman and his tooles
A THEOLOGICAL DISCOVRSE OF THE gracious and blessed Coniunction of Christ and a sincere Christian By THO TVKE Preacher of Gods word 1. COR. 6. He that is ioyned vnto Christ is one spirit The blessed Virgin Mary brought foorth Christ the Catholique Church brings foorth all true Christians LONDON Printed by Edw Griffin dwelling in the little Old-baily neere the signe of the Kings head 1617. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE SIR FRANCIS BACON Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England Right Honourable THere is no sound reason why any man should glorie in himselfe being Alone and I thinke no man that is compos animi doth desire it seeing no man can be compleat and happie no not in this world without a Fellow It is no mans vnitie in himselfe but his Vnion and Communion witb others that makes him blessed Woe therefore vnto him that is alone But amongst all our Vnions one with another there is none to be compared with our Coniunction with our blessed Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ For Princes Parents Patrones Husbands Wiues Children Kinsfolkes Friends Neighbours and all others also with whom wee are conioyned are but the spoyle of Time and a prey for Death Adam and all his Children are but Eatrh Some of them indeede stand aboue their Brethren like Mountaines yet these Mountaines as well as Mole-hills are but earth and earth will to earth though all the world say nay But our Lord Iesus Christ hath mastered the graue in the graue and ouercome death in death hee is aliue and liues for euer And whereas no other Vnion no not all the Vnions in the world together can assure the soule of Gods fatherly grace and giue it a true Title to euerlasting life this can and doth in so much that hee which is ioyned to Christ may say and say truely with Saint PAVL I am dead to the Law I am crucified with Christ but I liue yet not I any more but Christ liueth in mee And in that I now liue in the flesh I liue by the faith of the Sonne of God who hath loued me and giuen himselfe for mee A happie man indeede clothed with Christ partaker of his merits indued with his Spirit and transformed into him by his grace This man cannot perish out of doubt but Christ who died for him and liueth in him must also perish with him which cannot be There is good reason therefore to iudge an vnfeigned Christian the Only blessed man indeede and to make more account of this Coniunction then of all earthly things how glorious how great or how good soeuer A Discourse hereof I doe here offer vnto your Honourable Lordshippe and it comes cheerefully to you as being bold vpon your generous spirit and loue to learning though in it selfe it be vnworthy of so learned and iudicious a Person and comes it may be also out of season your Lordshippe being full of great and weighty businesses But yet I beseech you grace it with your kinde acceptance and vouchsafe to pardon my boldnesse with your Lordshippe Go on right noble Lord go on As you doe inioy your Fathers Honours so continue as you haue begunne to expresse his noble Vertues that while you liue not onely your owne Friends and Followers but that many a poore Priest that hath waited long at Altar and done faithfull seruice in the Church a prentishippe or perhaps two or three and could neuer come by Benefice either for want of friends or through the cruell and cursed corruption of sacrilegious Patrones and not such onely but that all which loue learning godlinesse truth and equitie may loue you and honour you and blesse God for you and that when you shall depart from hence you may inioy his Happinesse in heauen and leaue as honourable a Name behinde you here on earth The great God of Heauen and Earth double his graces in you and grant you health and long life for the good of this Church and State and the comfort of all those that loue your Person and honour your Vertues May 24 1617. Your Lordships euer humbly THO TVKE Of the Coniunction of CHRIST and a Christian OVr Lord Iesus Christ is God and Man God of God light of light very God of very God Man of the seede of Dauid borne of a woman at the fulnesse of time a virgin-man of a virgin-mother the great Sauiour of the world the King Priest and Doctor of the Church which is his mysticall body and deerest Spouse A true Christian is he that belieues truly in Christ and expresseth his confidence in him by constant obedience to his law which is his light and by sincere loue vnto him and vnto his members Hee is vnworthy the name of a Christian that is not indued with the faith of a Christian He doth really deny Christ and his Lordship that will not that Christ raigne ouer him Hee doth deny him that denies to serue him And he doth not loue him that doth not loue his seruants He is indeed a Christian faith Saint Augustine who sheweth mercy vnto all who feeles another mans sorrow as his owne who denies no poore man his meat who is contented to be inglorious before men that hee may glory before God and his Angells who despiseth earthly things that he may haue heauenly who succours the miserable and is mooued to weepe by the teares of others A true Christian is the true sheepe of Christ now the Sheepheard best knowes his owne sheepe and is best able to describe them and shew with what markes they are branded and are to be discerned Ye belieue not saith Christ for yee are not of my sheep My sheepe heare my voice and I know them and am knowne of mine and they follow me A true Christian is Christs true Disciple one that heares his word gladly and conformes himselfe vnto it carefully delighting to heare the things that are worthy to be done and to doe the things that are worthy to be heard accounting it to learne well to liue well and to know well to belieue well Now true Christian charitie discouers the true disciple of Christ By this saith Christ shall all men know that ye are my Disciples if yee haue loue one to another For sure hee loues not the Master that hates the Scholler neither deserues he the name of a scholler in the schoole of Christ that loues not the learning of Christ wherwith all his schollers are both knowne and graced and this is Charitie the poore mans riches the rich mans honour and the great mans crowne without which rich men are worse then beggars learned men viler then idiots and they that thinke themselues highest are lower then the lowest euen nothing iust nothing worse then nothing for nothing can neither doe hurt nor take hurt So then true Faith in Christ true knowledge and acknowledgement of Christ true and right hearing and discerning of the voice of
hath contracted and vnited himselfe vnto his people and is their head and louing husband And therefore the Apostle tels the Corinths that hee prepared them for one husband to present them as a pure virgine vnto Christ Wherfore also Saint Austen is bold to say that Omnis anima aut Christs sponsa aut diaboli adultera est Euery soule of man is either the spouse of Christ or Diuels adultresse And as in simple contract or marriage there is a mutuall reciprocall giuing taking made between man wife of each other so in this holy happy and spirituall contract and coniunction betwixt Christ and all true beleeuers there is a mutuall giuing and taking of each other God giues his sonne to vs the sonne also giues himselfe freely to vs and God giues vs also vnto his sonne as hee did Eue to Adam and wee also by his grace preuenting assisting and co-working with vs doe giue our selues willingly vnto his sonne Willingly I say God hauing giuen vs the will who willingly and of his owne accord sent vs his Son And if the promise made by a woman to her husband in the day of her Marriage or Espousals be worthily called The Couenant of her God as it is indeed so called by the Holy Ghost well then and worthily may our vow and promise made vnto Christ in our Baptisme by which wee are engrafted into him and coupled with him bee called the Couenant of our God beeing made not onely according to Gods appointment and in his name and presence but vnto him also who himselfe is God euen our God who hath vpon his thigh and vpon his garment a name written The King of Kings and Lord of Lords And therefore also as the wife is called by the name of her husband and no longer of her father for to this new estate belongs a new name so when a man hath separated his soule from the world and hath put himselfe into the power of Christ and hath ioyned himselfe vnto him as a woman vnto her husband a new title belongs vnto him the name of Christ is now called vpon him and he is now no more to follow the world nor the carnall affections and commands of olde Adam but as a wife must forsake father and mother and all and cleaue vnto her husband For thy desire saith God shall bee subiect to thy husband and he shall rule ouer thee so a man that is wedded and vnited vnto Christ must deny himselfe his owne reason and will and worth and forsake the world euen whatsoeuer is opposite to the will of Christ Hee should fashion himselfe vnto his pleasure and cleaue vnto him continuing constant as Penelope and should so chastely beare himselfe so discreetly that no other name might be iustly cast vpon him but that hee might bee called onely by the name of Christ whose hee is and to whom alone hee espoused himselfe For no greater shame can befall a wife then to be called in contempt and disgrace by another mans name and not her husbands which comes to passe when she forsaketh the Guide of her youth and forgetteth and violateth the couenant of her God Such goodly huswiues were Messelina the wife of Emperor Claudius and Marie of Arragon wife to Otho the third but wee neede not goe so farre to seeke such weedes they thriue too well in euery Climate But let vs returne Albeit a woman bee allowed to change her fathers name when shee is married and to cleaue vnto her husbands yet shee may in no case change her Christian name that shee must hold fast vnto death Neither indeede see wee any woman change or forsake her name in Baptisme vnlesse such as turne Turkes and Apostataes thereby being instructed to bee faithfull vnto Christ her heauenly husband and to weare his name as a garland of honour vnto death For she is not married vnto Christ as shee is to her Christian Husband till death her doe part For death hath no power ouer Christ our Lord as it hath ouer vs his seruants who are but bubbles and breathes of aire And therefore though hee should change as many husbands as She did who had as Saint Hierome writeth three and twenty and so likewise be called by as many names yet shee must euer remember to keepe fast the Name and Faith of Christ and beware shee make no change of him for Idols like Glaucus that changed golden armour with Diomedes for brazen that so Christ may delight in her and in her vertue which as Saint Chrysostome faith is the true beauty of the Soule For he is her Lord God and most louing husband in opposition to whom she must call no man husband nor acknowledge any man nor any thing els in the whole world By reason of this sweet contract and vnion of Christ and his Church there passe from them many louing kindnesses and embraces expressed by either to other really as is euident by those patheticall passages of loue that are set downe in the Booke of the Canticles the Churches Loue song wherin their loue to each other is most liuely described But yet the Coniunction of man and wife in holy matrimonie comes far short of the coniunction of Christ and his Church and doth not sufficiently expresse vnfold it to vs. For by wedlock the man his wife are made one flesh two faith the Scripture shall be one flesh But he that is ioyned to the Lord is one spirit as the Apostle teacheth Now all flesh is grasse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and all the glory of man and woman as flesh and blood is as the flower of the grasse which fades and fals away before the grasse itselfe doth die The strongest men are but sturdie grasse the goodliest women are but goodly grasse dust and ashes wormes and wormes meat Death separateth the most louing and faithfull couples that either are or euer were vnited and wed together as Abraham and Sarah Iacob and Racheb Vlysses and Penelope Seneca and Paulina Mausolus and Artimisia Pompey and lulia But death cannot separate Christ Iesus and his Church Who shall seuer vs from the loue of Christ shall tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword As it is written for thy sake are we killed all day long We are counted as sheepe for the slaughter Neuerthelesse in all these things wee are more then Conquerours through him that loued vs. For I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor Principallities nor Powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall bee able to seuer vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. Wee say of many men that they marry they Executours but so doe not Christ who hath vanquisht death in his owne denne and liues for euer Yes many men haue married their owue Executioners as did Domitian the
Coniunction throughout all ages and generations of men In so much that no stint or limit can be set to the value vertue and merite of his sacrificed body it knoweth no bounds of efficacie vnto life but is also it selfe infinitely able to purge and saue all in any place or age on whom Christ is pleased to conferre it Wee are then vnited by the vnion of grace to our blessed Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ being locked and ioyned to him by the vnion of a singular and most blessed Dependance as hee is both God and Man For our very being as we are Christians true members of the Church his body doth wholly depend vpon him Our new life and pardon our iustice and holinesse and all our spirituall and celestiall gifts and comforts flow from him as water from a fountaine or as light from the Sunne and altogether depend vpon him so as that if any thing could come betwixt vs and him that could seuer vs from him or from the gracious operations of his Godhead or from the Cooperation and merits of his Manhead we could not wee should not continue new creatures Saints or liuing members of his mysticall body one moment of time but must needes presently become nothing dead cursed slaues fire-brands of hell and perishable I say againe the Godhead of Christ is in vs dwells in vs and we in it not onely because it fills vs as it fills all things else and is present with vs as it is throughout all the world but because cause it worketh mightily in vs and very graciously powring foorth and giuing vs all our new being life ioyes and vertues which we haue and for that it doth also susteine and keepe vs in this good estate it sets vs in In which respect we may truely say that God is absent from the reprobate and that they are separated from him And therefore also Saint Gregorie saith that All we which belieue in Christ are out of doubt his body And because he is become the head of his members by a maruellous dispensation of pietie therefore he is also onely with vs the rout of Reprobates being repulsed The Church of Christ is the chosen inheritance of Christ as Rabanus truely speaketh and therefore the Godhead of Christ visits and tends her onely with the visitation and presence of grace and mercy to saluation passing ouer the vast and drie Desarts and craggy rockes and sterilous mountaines of wicked Cast-awayes which are the heritage of Satan and confusion I say further the very flesh of Christ is in vs and we in it And that not onely Propter identitatem naturee because he hath a true humane soule and body as we haue but without sin like as the head and the body and the vine and her branches haue one kinde of substance or nature nor yet onely Propter conformitatem affectuum for conformity of affections or similitude of vertues or for because hee is in our hearts by loue and we in his which may be among faithfull louers and louing couples but also because wee are his worke and creation his fruite and edifice His very flesh doth sanctifie vs his bloud doth clense vs by the meanes and vertue whereof being the flesh and bloud of God our soules are quickned our hearts are purified our sinnes are washed away and wee nourished refreshed strengthened and preserued to life and glory From this sacred flesh of his our very bodies doe receiue that life which shall make them glorious at the latter day and for the which they are now reputed parcels of his blessed body These corruptible bodies of ours could neuer liue the life they shall liue but that they are here ioyned with his body which is incorruptible and that his is in ours as a cause of immortality a cause by remouing through the inualuable death and merite of his owne flesh that which hindered the life of ours And if a man may say the fire is in a man when the heat and vertue of the fire is in him as when he is hot burnt scorcht or scalded well then may a man truely say that Christ is in a man who partakes of his merit vertue and operations and who hath his very spirit dwelling and abiding in him who moulds him turnes him fashions him mortifies him quickens him and repaires him scorching drying consuming and burning vp the petulant and luxurious lusts and humors of sin within him Christ then both as God and Man is in vs within vs and is our Head in whom we are compleat And as from the head is conueied sense and motion into all the parts of the body And as the same soule which is in the head is in all the members of the body quickning mouing and directing them Euen so the holy Spirit of Christ is from Christ deriued into all the members of his spirituall body and from him as God and Man wee receiue our godly life and being and all those perfections wherein our godlinesse and happinesse standeth The Godhead indeed is the fountain of all grace and comforts but the manhead is the conduit-pipe by which they are from that fountain or spring-head conueyed and brought vnto vs euen as bloud is diffused by veines throughout the body from the liuer or as the sinewes do minister sense and motion from the braine But whereas sinewes veines and pipes of wood lead or other matter lacke reason iudgement and will the flesh of Christ is furnished with them in all perfections so that indeed neither the Deity without the Humanity nor the Humanity without the Deity but both do work together for our good and worke-out our life and glorie So then we participate whole Christ and the whole of Christ We participate Christ God and Man agent and patient liuing and dying descending ascending abased and exalted Hee that hath the tree hath the fruits he that hath the field hath the corne he to whom the sheep belongs is owner also of the fleece and fruite We participate Christ partly by imputation his obedience holinesse and sufferings being imputed to vs and iudged to be ours For the Suretie being ours his mony is also ours to pay our debts hauing freely vndertaken vpon him so to doe This mony is the iustice of Christ imputed to vs wherewith we buy out our iustification and liberty which we haue in Christ Iesus This as Salomon speakes of mony doth answere all things By it we obteine accesse to God pardon of our sinnes redemption from our enemies and euerlasting saluation And partly also we participate him by habituall and reall infusion as when grace is really wrought within vs and inhereth inwardly in vs true holinesse being ingrauen vpon our hearts by the finger of God whiles we liue on earth and hereafter more fully when both our bodies and our soules shall bee made like vnto his in perfit glory And because Christ worketh by his Spirit therefore hee bestowes his Spirit