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Indeed this coming of Christ into the soul of a sinner, doth not make him one person with Christ: that is the singular honour to which our nature is advanced by the hypostatical union: But this makes a person mystically one with Christ; and though it be beneath the hypostatical union, yet it is more than a mere fœderal union. Christ’s coming into the soul, signifies more than his coming into covenant with it, for it is the taking of such a person into a mystical union with himself, by the imparting of his Spirit unto him. As the vital sap of the stock coming into the graft, makes it one with the stock, John 15:15 so the coming of Christ’s Spirit into the soul, makes it a member of his mystical body; and this is a glorious supernatural work of God, 1 Cor. 1:30 most honourable, most comfortable, and for ever sure and indissoluble