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spirit_n	body_n	life_n	soul_n	34,804	5	5.7811	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62527	The bottomles pit smoaking in familisme as may appeare by ashort [sic] discourse on Gal. I.9, together with some breef notes on AB. Copps recantation sermon (as 'twere) preached at Burford, Sept. 23, 1651 / by John Tickell ... ; this may serve for a key to familisme ('till another) opening to most (if not all) their chambers of imagery ; also to vindicate the true Gospell, God, and scripture-purity and answer severall weighty questions concerning the mystical union.	Tickell, John, d. 1694.	1652 (1652)	Wing T1154; ESTC R38807	39,336	106

whole creation Eph. 1. it being proper to the elect viz. Christ Angels and Saints though to Christ Angels and Saints under severall respects 3. This union wherein the elect soule hath God united to it is not an Immediate but a mediate union through a mediatour Jesus Christ Mat. 1. 1 Cor. 1.30 2 Cor. 5.19 God-man the Imanuel God whith us of him are all things especially spirituall God is in Christ uniting and reconciling c. God and the falne creature cannot unite without a mediatour no more then a consuming fire and stubble Christ is this mediatour and the union is through him John 17. read the Scripture 4. This union through a mediatour may be considered either first as uniting God and the soule the mediatour intervening or secondly as uniting the mediatour and the elect soule 5. This union may be considered with respect 1. to the present state of grace or secondly the future State of glory 6. Considered with respect to God the mediatour intervening and with respect to the present state of grace 1. God is relatively united i.e. 1. According to the uniting virtue of love divine love unites God to the soul loved 1 Sam. 18.1 with the speciall gratious-union of speciall love hence that Scripture hee that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him for God is love 1 Iohn 4.16 ubi amor tbi anima love brings an indwelling 2. 1 Sam. 18.3 Hence God stands united to the elect soule in a special-gratious-Covenant relation league hence among men the terme of the united provinces c. 3. Hence in those sweet relations that depend on love and a love Covenant Hosee 2.18 father husband friend in reconciliation 2 Cor. 5. Eph. 1. Col. love Amity c. make the most of it 2. Sec. 2. God is I could never meet with a fit word to set out this respect of union by it there are words used but they serve rather to vaile our ignorance then reveale this mistery mysticall it is because secret hidden and a mysterie so sayes Paul Eph. 5. in naturall things I would call it physicall set out by the union in Contact virtuall but in these supernaturall I professe I know not any word used fitly to note the nature of it I shall not Coyne new but give you the notion it self in plain words I say god is united as a speciall grace working cause I have spoken alreadye how he is not united I speak now to shew you how he is united 1 Iohn 3.2 as well as I can I shall better tell you and you will better understand it when wee are come to heaven God through the mediatour as a principle a working-cause of a spirituall being and operation unites himself to the elect soule enlightning it quickning it c. with speciall grace This is on gods part 1. 1 Cor. 6.19 by that speciall spirit or the speciall Influences of the spirit which actuates the spirituall elect soule in its spirituall being operation 2. 1 Iohn 4.13 on the creatures part by the dependance of the spirituall soule on god for this wrought in it by the spirit From this union it is said hee that is joyned to the Lord is one spirit 1 Cor. 6.7 and 1 Cor. 12.13 by one spirit wee are united c. 7. Considering it with respect to the mediatour his union with us it is 1. A Relative union I shall not speak of the union of love wherein Christ is united to the elect soule 2. nor of that speciall Covenant Cant. 2.6 wherein the mediatour stands united 3. nor of all the sweet relations that flow from it as husband father friend c. I should bee then too large but thus 1. Christ stands as it were in a spiritually Civil Ep. 1.22 Rom. 5.14 1 Cor. 5.21.22.45 Rom. 11.16.17 Heb. 7.22 Es 53. 1 Ioh. 1.2 2 Cor. 5.21 2 Cor. 5.14 Kor 6.11 1 Cor. 12.12 Gal. 3.16 and politicall union mystically united to his Church as an head-man a repraesentative thus he is said to bee the head of the Church the second Adam the second man roote roote-man you know the union between the surety and his friend of the proxy the representative the Burgesse in parliamt. c. hence floweth communion spirituall Christ is reckoned to us and wee reckoned to Christ Christ made our sin wee made the Righteousnes of God in him read at large Rom. 5. wee are in divine Law reckoned as really one with him as if though not one person hence our communion in election Justification Adoption sanctification glory Christ is that in respect of us what he is not in respect of himself and wee are that in respect of Christ what wee are not as in our selves hence that in Joan. 17.23 I in them and they in mee hence the Communion in attribution Communicable so Also is Christ Christ mysticall Christ Jesus in union with his Church as Christ he is not considered without his Church he is as God therefore that is not communicable his people as such are not considered without Christ no more then a body without an head This is a soul enriching-union call it what you will This union is by Gods gracious Covenant Grant on Gods part Ephe. 1.4 This may be before we be from eternity chosen in him we thus are in Gods account or virtually 2. By the spirit working faith 3. Ephe. 3.17 Faith wrought by the spirit bringing us on our part in time actually into this Covenant state and so union with Christs The union of Christ I shall speak unto elsewhere 2. The kind 1. Cor. 15 Ioh. 6. 1. Cor. 8.6 Christ stands in such an union as we were but now speaking to in respect of God as a principle active and a working cause in subordination to God the Father united to the elect soule Cod works by Christ Heb. 1.2 This is by the spirit from Christ The forme and the Father being to us as the soule is to our body a quickning principle though not in every particular as the soule to the body I speak as to influence quickning to a spirituall life 1. Ioh. 4.12.13 working in us habits of Grace as anon whereby we are enabled likewise by faith and love and other Graces in severall respects to unite to Christ and maintain Communion with him This is set out by the union between not a civil but a naturall head and members So 1. Cor. 12. 1. Cor. 12 Col. 1.18.19 Col. 2.19 Ioh. 15.1 Pet. 2 the head is the seat of the spirits naturall giving out influence to all the body by these spirits so Christ Hence not only civilly but otherwise this is set out by the Vine and Branches building and foundation Hence the Communion of Sanctifiing influences The same spirit working that in measure in us Ioh. 1.16 Ioh. 3.34 Col. 1.19 1. Ioh. 5.20 Ephe. 3.19 which it wrought in Christs humane nature

Trinity there must be as many persons in the God-head as waies of personating the God-head or of its subsistence 5. Againe Every such person must be a Christ God and Man personally united make a Christ gallant we shall be all Christs severall Christs as many Christs as Christians all of us Lords as was said of Christ Fooles there will be Lords many but we have but one Lord Jesus Christ If this union be personall then it followes as what is proper to the Godhead may be attributed to the person so what is attributed to the man-hood should be attributed to the person The person thus in union should be God-man Infinite Immense Eternal c. Againe take the persons of Familists as sinners and it may be said as of Christ God dying so of Familists God sinning God a swearer God a drunkard God a blaspheamer This would be sweet stuff yet it must be so if God and a sinner be personally united Let me give you Pauls sence of Christ formed in us in the true sence and so conclude with this Question For the clearer understanding of this mystery I shall speak as plainly as I can and the rather because some would charge me with denying that Christ is in us formed in us c. I shall therefore grant as much as may be granted First I say that true beleevers the called of God they are really united unto Christ one with Christ one with the humane nature of Christ one with the Divine nature of Christ one with the person of Christ But how to be understood anon 2. We are one with God in union if you will with God one with the nature of God one with the persons in the God-head Father Sonne and Spirit 3. I say that Christ is really in us nay the person of Christ is in us 4. Nay the Godhead is in us Farther 5. I say that Christ is formed in us 6. That we are partakers of the divine nature For my meaning in all this I intend not what the Familists intend when they speake this as I have before delivered I take it not in that sense 1. I say we are really united to God and Christ as really as a branch is united to the vine the wife to the husband the building to the foundation the head unto the members and the members to the head as really as the Father and Sonne and Spirit are one which is one step-farther I say as truly and as really It followes not in all respects the same kind of union to the same participation and communion these comparisons and resemblances of our union doe not alway hold out the kind of the union but for the most part the verity the truth of the union it were grosse blasphemy to assert other wise 2. Christ and God are really in us but not in the same manner is God in us as in the severall persons of the Trinity or as in the humane nature of Christ I have proved this already 3. Wee are united to the person of Christ but not made one person with Christ 4. Christ is formed in us but not in the same way and manner as hee was formed in the wombe of the virgin the word is not so made flesh in us as there it was not so manifested in our particular flesh as in that particular flesh this I have already prooved 4. Wee are really pertakers of the divine nature but not in the same way and manner as Christ was partaker of the divine nature I have likewise proved this already and therefore shall speak no more to these negatives I shall not speak of the severall sorts of union t is well known there are severall hee that knowes not this knowes nothing the union of the soul and body is one kind of union the union of head and members a secondly the union of members in one body a 3d. the union of husband and wife a 4th of foundation and building a 5th of vine and branches a 6th of the two natures in Christ a 7th of the persons in the divine essence an 8th c. Of a Christian with God and Christ a 9th c. 2. Nor of the severall respects of Gods being or presence in himself in his son in all Creatures in heaven in hell in his ordinances in his people who knows not but that these are severall and must not bee Confounded neither shall I speak how Christ is in himself in his father in earth in heaven in his ordinances in his peoples hearts c. 3. I shall not speak in the 3. place of the severall sorts of Gods working manifesting himself in heaven in Glory one way to saints in Glory another to saints on earth in Grace in types in truth nor how he may make known in creatures his power and God head c. For the better understanding of the mysticall union observe these points The matter is very high the words shall bee the plainer that the meanest capacities may take it in I shall use as few termes of art as may bee the truth in this point is above art note 1. That there is a generall union an especiall union between God and his Creatures 2. This union whither generall or speciall is reall really uniting them 3. This reall union is the originall of a reall Communion between God and the creature 4. This reall union may be diversely Considered according to the diverse respects and diverse effects of union 5. Every union between God and the creature is not this mysticall union of which we speak 6. The Gratious soule mystically united unto God may bee thus united unto God in more respects then one 7. For distinctions sake whither properly or improperly wee may say there are severall unions though indeed properly severall modes or waies of union between God and the elect soul this premised I conclude 1. The elect soul hath God united to it though not onely in the generall and universall union in respect of which God may be said to be united to the whole creation this is not as an Elect soule but in Common as a creature this union I take to be held out in that text In him we live and moove and have our being this union for its forme is made up 1. on gods part by that common spirit or spirit in common in fluences which actuates the whole creation in ' esse operari in essence and operation see Gen. 1.2 2. on the creatures part by that dependance natural which the creature hath on God for this esse operari through the spirit he that knowes not this knowes little this union every creature hath with Gods Familists goe no higher then this they may be thus united unto God and yet divels but this union the elect soul hath as a creature and more 2. The elect soule hath God united to it in a speciall which is called a my sticall union in respect of which God is not united to the