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This is mere Ambiguity, * 1.1 and no resolution of the Que∣stion. The Question is, Whe∣ther he that is spiritually one with him, or one Spirit with him, be one Spirit essentially, or one personally, in sensu phy∣sico; or only one person in sensu morali vel politica,
as a Corporation and their Bailiff, a City and their Mayor, a Republick and their Sovereign, are one Body? or, Whether Union be largely taken for Conjunction? But I am willing to let this Mystery pass with a reverend admiration and acknowledg∣ment of my ignorance, rather than rashly to deter∣mine in the dark: Only I resolve to keep off from their errour, that tell us we are deified, or made one essence or person with Christ properly. I am afraid of soaring too high in proud aspiring strains, in my thoughts of our Union with Christ, and our parti∣cipation of the Divine Nature; and lest while I seck to be more than man, I become less; knowing that aspiring to be as God, is the way to be a De∣vil. Camero in Praelect. hath said more of this point of Union, than any I know; but he extendeth the sense of [Ʋnion] somewhat far.
Ʋnio ••aec est spiritu∣alis illa Relatio homi∣num ad Christum qua jus a••q••••r••••nt ad omnes ill•••• benedictiones quae in ipso praeparantur. Jo. 5. 12. & 3. 24 Ames. M••••ul. l. 1. c. 26. §. 2.