Union, necessity, excellence, and utility of, ii. 73 ; seven uniting considera- tions, 74.
Mystical, is of believers with Curist, the head by faith, with one another by love, x. 323 ; moral, is of believers with one another, consisting of consent in doctrine, ib. ; and a mutual agreement and concord of affection, ib. ; the end of Christ's incarnation, 324 ; no one thing so
INDEX. 355
mucli inculcated in his sermons, 325 ; or in his prayers, ih. ; because it is such an excellent blessing, 326 ; because be foresaw how much the church would need this blessing, ib. ; that we might know that unity among believers is a possible blessing, 327 ; to encourage us to pray for it, ib. ; he died for this end, 328 ; aimed at in his ascension and the pouring out of the Spirit, ib. ; the end of his gracious dispensa- tion, 329 ; the end of his ordinances and appointments in the church, ib. Union of believers with Christ the head, and with one another, hath some re- semblance to the unity that is between the divine persons themselves, X. 333 ; spiritual, close, constant, and inseparable, holy, consisting with order and distinction, ib.
Mystical, with Christ the head, xi. 24 ; the whole Trinity concerned in, ib. ; yet the honour is chiefly devolved upon Christ, the second person, 25 ; whole Christ is united to a whole believer, ib. ; is secret and mysterious, yet real, 26 ; explained, so far as our present light will bear, by analogy to the union between the head and the members, 27 ; of the members one with another, ib. ; instituted as a means to convey to us all grace here, and glory hereafter, 28 ; the ground of that exchange which is between Christ and sin, 29 ; those who are once interested in, are safe, ib. ; the honour of, 30 ; the happiness of, 31 ; known by the Spirit of Christ, ib. ; resemblance between, and the unity of the persons in the divine nature, 34 ; between it and the hypostatical union, 35.
Mystical, fruits of, that tend to the conviction of the world, xi. 50 ; love and mutual serviceableness, ib. ; holiness and strictness of life and conversation, 51 ; contempt of the baits of the world and allurements of sense, ib. ; cheerfulness and comfortableness in the midst of troubles and deep wants, ib. ; faithfulness in the duties of relatives, ib. ; constancy in the profession of faith, 52.
With Christ represented in conception by many metaphors, xi. 182; engrafting, 183.
With Christ is more than a relation to him as a political head, xi. 389 ; of every particular believer with Christ is immediate, person with person, ib. ; is effected by regeneration, or the converting work of his Spirit, 391.
Between Christ and believers is by the Spirit on Christ's part, and by faith on ours, xii. 380.
With Christ, love the mutual bond between us and Christ, as Christ is between God and us, xii. 418.
With Christ not perfect in the present life, xii, 453.
With Christ the fruit of faith, xiii. 330.
With Christ, what it is, xxi. 24 ; must not only be begun, but con- tinued, 26 ; why union with Christ is inconsistent with sin, 28. Unity in Things Indiffeeent, a Persuasion to, ii. 68. Unity, Hopes of, in and by Divided and Distracted Times, v. 377. Unity of the churches, a privilege of the coming of the day of the Lord, v. 382 ; purity the ground of, 385 ; promises to this effect, ib. ; this will best suit with the great and happy estate of the latter days, ib. ; God will then make some visible provision against the scandal of dissension, 386 ; the misery of those times doth seem to enforce the greater unity, 387 j comfort from, 388 ; and order brought in by confusions, 389.
356 INDEX.
Unity , exhortation to endeavour after, v. 393 ; to the people, ih. ; to the
ministry, 400 ; to the parliament, 404. Consists in an agreement in the truth, not in a coagulation of errors,
V. 497. Between God and Christ, xi. 33 ; of essence, as he is the second person
of the Trinity, ib. ; personal, of the two natures, as mediator, 34. Universal redemption disproved, x. 250. Universalists confuted, iii. 453. Unlawful things not only must be denied for Christ, but things lawful must
be disesteemed for his sake, xx. 14. Unmercifidness a sin most unsuitable to grace, iv. 230 ; is unlike God, ib. ;
it consists in a defect in giving, and a refusing to forgive, ib. Unprofitableness, a damning sin, x. 11. See Omission, sins of. Unregenerate men, differences among, i. 15.
All are void of righteousness, yet all are not alike sinful, xi. 337.
Can do nothing good, the regenerate nothing perfect, xi. 477.
There may be some amiable qualities in, xvi. 458.
Men represented in scripture as asleep in sin, xix. 331 ; their sleep is
natural, 332 ; or judicial, ib. • represented as dead, ib. ; manner
of recovery, 334 ; exhortations addressed to, 338. Unrighteousness, what? iii. 94 ; chiefly false waj'^s of worship, 94. Unsanctified heart is drossy, and little worth, xviii. 395 ; as to acceptation