Christ and Believers; it is therefore compared to all sorts of Unions, Natural, and Political.He is the Head, they the Members; he is the Root, they the Branches; he the Husband, they the Wife: 'Tis so firm, so strong a Union in∣tensively, that Christ and a Regenerate Man becomes one Spirit, as if there was but one Soul in two Bodies; what the Spirit doth in Christ, it doth also in a Believer, acording to the ca∣pacity of his Soul;I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in One.Joh. 17.23 This shews it is a wonderful, and mysterious Union, more to be admired, then it can be explained: — And the spring of it rises from the hypostatical Ʋnion of our Nature, with the Divine Nature, in the Person of Christ: O how doth this exalt Be∣lievers!Sixthly, They are not only elivated, advan∣ced and lifted up on high by vertue of this U∣nion; but also, in that they are allowed, and daily have Communion with the Father, Son,1 Joh. 1.3. and holy Spirit: But without Regeneration, or, our Natures being first changed, this could not be: What Communion can there be between a living God, and a dead Heart? Or between a holy God, and a filthy and polluted Creature? God hates Sin, and he loves it: God loves Holiness,Charnock.and he loathes it: Justification changes our state, that discharged us from the Guilt of Sins; but Regeneration changes our Nature, and makes us fit to converse with God: For as God can take no pleasure in us, until his Image is stampt upon us, so we can take no Delight, nor plea∣sure in Him: Without this Change Heaven would be no Paradice or Heaven unto us. But by being Renewed, we are capable, and do en∣joy sweet Fellowship with the Father, and the Son. Believers walk with God, and God with them: Jesus Christ and Believers set together,2 Cor. 6.160