4. and 5. Heads of Self-contradiction. Concerning Sin, and Christ.
THese two Sections, R. F. waves altogether; In the former, I delivered out what I had from them in discourse, in Scotland, that sin is no visible enemy to a Saint or to themselves, and yet they speak as if they had received higher degrees of light then ordinary Saints. It seems it is to see sin in others, not in themselves: but they carry their light in a dark Lanthorn, are in love with their own shadow, and in friendship with their own lusts, to whose eyes of understanding, sin, and the sin in the bosom, is not the most visible adversary. In the latter I gave forth, what I had there also in discourse, and in a Let∣ter; They hold, Christ to be in all, yet none to be in Christ but themselves. Whereas, in what way or respect God and Christ▪ as God, is in all, all are in Christ as God; that is, In him we live, move, and have our being, as men, and crea∣tures: And were Christ in all, as Mediator, all were in Christ as members of such a Head, Branches of such a Vine∣stock, and root of saving grace, but He is neither in every man, nor is every man in Him by such a way of union.