Christ exalted and Dr. Crisp vindicated in several points called antinomian, being cleared from neonomian suggestions alledged, by some remarks on Mr. A-, his rebuke to Mr. Lob shewing from Scripture and most orthodox authors the invalidity of his rebuke in taxing the doctor to be apocryphal, and his doctrine antinomian : with some observations on the Bishop of Worcester's letter concerning the great point of the change of persons between Christ and believers ... : with a table to find the heads insisted on / done by a happy, tho' unworthy branch of the said doctor.

§. XLIII.

The eighteenth is a very weak Heresie, though a long one, and in truth no more a Heresie, than 'tis Heresie to say, Christ took not the Nature of Angels, but the Seed of Abraham; but however this comes in the Bed-roll, to fill up the number; and 'tis thus, The Eternal Life, in which the Angels were created and confirmed by Christ, differs from that Eternal Life which Believers have in Christ: The one is a Creature Life, or a created Life, the other is the Eternal Life of God communicated in time. This, though not of the Essence of Christianity, or a Fundamental, may be a little explained, and so it will appear that it is no Heresie. But some Persons are glad of a small Occasion to quarrel. The only Ground for quarrelling at this Expression, is, That the Life of a Believer is the Eternal Life of God; by which, I suppose, is meant of God-Man, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now take it in that Sense, then Christ being the Life of every Believer, they have the Eternal Life of God-Man in them, so as the Angels have not. Christ took not their Nature; they are not

Members of his Body, of his Flesh, and of his Bones, and Believers are; Eph. 5.30. He is not their Resurrection and Life, as he is the Believers. Is it not a great Truth, that by Vertue of their Union to Christ by Faith in his Flesh and Blood, the Flesh and Blood of him who is the Eternal Son of God, they have that Eternal Life in them, from him, which the Angels have not? As to the Eternal Life which the Angels have, and shall enjoy, what is it but a created Life? Whereas the Life of Christ in his Saints, and with them to all Eternity, is their participation of his Life, as he is more than a meer Creature, as he is God-Man; and they one with him, parta∣king of the Divine Nature, as the Branches partake of the very Nature of the Vine; not that they are Godded with Christ God-Man, but in an ineffable manner they partake of his Divine Nature, being made one Body, incorporated into him, and so one with him; which must comprehend an Eternal Life being in them, which is more than meerly created, they being filled with all the fulness of God, Eph. 3.19. That is, as they have Christ in them, the hope of Glory, in whom dwells the fulness of the Godhead Bodily, but in Believers he dwells only Spiritually.