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Union with Christ
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“In a sense the Spirit acts as the signet ring of the divine King.”
“Therefore the promise of life to Christ's spiritual seed, was made chiefly to Christ himself; and to them only in and through him.”
“Many stones, one temple; many members, one family; many branches, one vine; many crumbs, one loaf.”
“O that I might behold Your heart-ravishing smiles!" "Lord, I am Yours and You are mine!”
“He headeth them all in Christ; and what saith Christ? ‘My sheep shall no man take out of my hand.’ If angels and men be once bottomed on Christ, they can never be parted again.”
“We cannot be one with Him as Christ is, for He is the brightness of His glory, the express image and character of His person; He is the natural Son of God and of the same nature with God.”
“We are all a part of one mystical body, whereof Christ is the head.”
“He rose again for me, he is now in heaven for me, as carrying me in his breast.”
“By the vine there I understand Christ, Christ as head; by the branches, I understand this church.”
“Reynolds puts it very beautifully: "Every promise seized upon in faith leads a man to Christ and to the consideration of our union with him.”
“I cannot but recommend Him unto you, as your Husband, your Wellbeloved, your Portion, your Comfort, and your Joy.”
“And Jesus Christ will not condemn them, for believers are His spouse; and Christ will not condemn His own spouse.”
“He joins our nature first with God in his own person, and makes both one there, that so God and man becoming one in person, he might the easilier make God and man one in covenant.”
“And though being in Christ, there is no danger—yet his heart hesitates and trembles.”
“It is the nature of love, to desire union to the object beloved, especially of this love to Christ; and, this union being attained, the desires are after communion with Christ, converse and fellowship with Him.”
“It is this living upon Christ for all he needs, this going to Christ under all circumstances and at all seasons, which forms the happy and holy life of a child of God.”
“So in the Ephesians we are said both to grow up in him and for him.”
“And that is, an high esteem of Christ and his covenant, an ardent desire of union and communion with him, a longing for his righteousness, as a hungry man longs for meat, or a thirsty man for drink.”
“He takes of all things in heaven and of all things in earth, and He makes them up to Christ as a Head, one body.”
“The victory and the triumph were to be his; and, if his, then also ours.”
“Christ did not rise from the dead as a private person, but as the public head of the church; and the head being raised, the rest of the body shall not always lie in the grave.”
“If thou hast one grace, thou hast all, and all gracious privileges together therewith; even all the things that belong to life and godliness; all the promises of this life and that to come.”
“Surely if there be the life of God and Christ in us, there will be a kind of connaturalness and suitableness of taste to the sweetness that is in holy things.”
“If we be in Christ, all that we suffer in this world, they are sufferings of conformity to make us suitable to our Head, and to fit us for glory.”
“All our springs of life, strength, peace, and comfort, are in him; and without him we can do nothing.”
“Will not this therefore make us seek the main—the food that endures to everlasting life; and labour to be in Christ more and more, labour to cherish communion with Christ, that everlasting bond?”
“Thou comest to take Jesus Christ, with all the life of Christ, and all that belongs unto him.”
“He stood in their stead, and they were viewed as one with Him from His cradle to His cross, and from His cross to His throne.”
“In Jehovah’s eye His people were with Him all the time, from His coming into the world.”
“Christ first comes in the heart by grace, and then the soul, having tasted the sweetness of it, longs for another coming.”