him conftanitly and for ever (as dwelling moſt uſually notes, 2 Cor. 6. 16.) 1 That which doth thus perpetually abide in his perſon, as denominated after the human nature, is all the fulneſs of the Cod-head, viz. That rich and incomprehenſible abundance of perfettions, whereof the ſupreme and adorable nature is ful ſo that indeed there is not at all any perfe&ion, or excellency in the divine nature, but is found abiding in him. And after ng common or ordinary way, but by an Hypoſtatical or perſonal union, of the God-head, with the Manhood in Chriſt: Which is not by way of mixture, confuſion, converſion, or any other mutation z but, m Bodily, to exclude that inhabitation which is only by extrinfical denomination. It being an Adverb doth de- note the manner as well as theſubjeF z wherefore when he ſpeaks of the temple of his Body, Fob 2. 21. that doth not fully reach the Apoſtle's meaning here ; but it muft be expounded perſonally, ſith in the Greek that which ſignifies with us a body, and ſo our Engliſh word body is put for a perſon, Rem. 12. 1, 2 Core 5. IC» Rev, 18.13. ſome body, or no bode ; 7.e. ſomeper- {on or no perſon. There is a preſence of the God-head genera! by eſſence and power ; particular in the Prophets and Apoſtles working Miracles ; gracious in all ſanQified ones 3 glorious in Heaven ; in light which no man can approach unto, 1 Tim, 6, 16. relative in the Church viſible and Ordinances ; rypi-ally un: der the Law, and Symbolically in the Sacraments ; But all theſs dwellings or being preſent in the Creature, fall ſhort of that in the Text, viz. bodily, connoting the perſonal habitation of the Deity in,” and union of it with the humanity of Chriſt. So cloſe and ftreight and intimate, that the God-head inhabiting, and the manhood inhabited, make but one and the ſame perſon, e- ven as the reaſonable Soul and Body m Man , make but ons Man. The way of the preſence of the Deity with the humanity of Chrift is above all thoſe manners of the preſence of God with Angels and Men. The God-head dwells in him perſonal- ly, in them in regard of affiſtance and energy ; God-head notes the truth of it, - Chrift was not only partaker of the divine na- ture, 2 Pet. 1. 4- but the very God-head dwells in him ; *Tis not only the Divinity (as the Socinians, following the vulgar Latin in this, would have it) but the Deity, the very nature afid eſſence of God. Now 'tis obſervable though in God him- ſelf, Divinity and Deity being indeed the ſame, Rom. 1. 20. and may differ only from the manner of our conception and con- templation. Yet here when the enemies to Chriſt's Deity , might by their cavelling make more uſe of the word Divinity (as when the Soul of Man is ſaid to bea divine thing) to inſinuate as if it here noted only the divine will excluſive to the other attributes (which excluſion the term aZ doth fignally prevent) the Apoſtle puts in Deity or God-head. Then left Chriſt might (as by the Arians) be.deemed a ſecondary God, or (as ſome ſince) a made God, inferior to the Father, he faith the fulneſs of the God-head, which ſpeaks him perfe& God ov equal with the Father; further connoting a numerical ſameneſ of eſſence betwixt the God-head of the Father and the Son ; al! the fulneſs of the God-head dwelleth in him. There is not one fulneſs of the Father, and another of the Son, but oze and the ſame ſingular God-head in both, Fohy 10. 30. the fulneſs of the Manhood in Adam and Eve, were not numerically the ſame, but the God-head of the Father and the Son is ; Yet is nos the Manhood of Chriſt co-extended and commenſurate with the God- head (as ſome Lutherans conceit) but where the Manhood is, or Chriſt as Man is, or hath his exiftence, there the fulneſs of the God-head dwells bodily ; ſo that this fulneſs is extended as the Manhood only in which it is, and not as far as the Deity in which this derivative fulneſs is not as in its ſeat, though it be all originally from it; but inherently or ſubjeQively in Chriſt.
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» Te Saints and holy Brethren, ch. 1, 2. who have received 16. Chriſt, ch. 2. 6, 7. and ſoare myſtically united to him, in whom dwelleth all fulneſs (as you have heard) being in him, havirg one ſpirit with him as members with the head, Xom. 8. 1, 9: Eph. 1. 23. 0 are impleat or filled, and ſo mediately ind cauſally compleat, from the all-fulneſs that is in your head, yet not immediately and properly compleat with it (as ſome have been apt to think.) p But i him, ye have that compleatneſs and perfeCtion which is reckon'd and made over to you and ac- cepted for you to juſtification, ſo that of his fulneſs ye receive, and grace for grace, Fohbn 1. 16. x Core 1, 30. 2 Cor. 5. 21s Eph. 1. 6. Phil. 3.9. Derive in and from him all ſpiritual bleſ- ſings, Eph. 1. 23. ſo that every one hath grace ſufficient, 2 C7. 12. 9. to do all things incumbent on him through Chrift en- ftrengthning him, Phil. 4. 13. It is true, there is here in this ſtate no being compleat or perfe& attually, as to Glorification, yet virtually and ſenſually, that may in a ſort be ſaid of true be- lievers, not only in regard of their head, but in regard of their certain hope of being ſaved in Chriſt, yea and indeed as to the earneſt, the ſeed, and root of it, having already that lite which ſhall never have an end, Fobn 3. 36. and 4. 14. Kon. 5 2. «Eph. 4. 30. 2 Theſſ. 2. 13. Heb. 9. 15, and 10. 14. 17. I» 3, 4+ I Foby5.12. q The Apoſtle for conſolation of the Saints, and in oppoſition to thoſe who did endeavour a withdrawing, from Chriſt to the worſhipping of Angels, v. 18. doth further infer from the perſonal union, the dignity of the human nature of Chriſt, in regard of the good Angels, which are here meant by principality and power, by reaſon ot their excellency by nature and grace, and their Authority delegated to them by God over other creatures, Mat. 24. 36. 2 Cor. 11. 14. 1 Tim. 5$e21s Chriſt ha- ving the fulneſs of the God-head dwelling in him bodily 15 head un- to the good Angels in regard of his excellency and eminency above them, who are far below him in perfe&ion, Eph. 1. 21. #0» t. 4. the beſt of them are miniftring ſpirits and ſubject to him, and ſo undex his authority and at his command, Mat. 13. 4t» and 16. 27. and 24. 31. Eph. 3. 10. Heb. 1s 14» 1 Pets 3o 27:
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