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( 13 ) spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, unto the father at the last day.” The Bush, sirs, is nearly to Christ and dearly bought by him too. She is ted to him as a living root and this is the sole foundation, from whence all rasture and blessings flow. All the spiritual blessings, that are the property of the Church spring this root alone if you cannot say you are ut to Jesus Christ, you are yet strangers to the   and juice that is in him. If you have Union with this blessed root, you have no com with him in houness of his nature, the of his life and the satisfaction he made  law and justice for sin; you have no interest in  triumphant ascension to heaven, and his prevassion within the vail. and so must needs n very dismal and lamentable situation. O sirs, you are by nature united unto sin and Satan, so by grace, to be enjoined therefrom, and  to Jesus Christ the living and life giving root.

3 the Church of Christ is called or compared to Bush Why? Because, as a Bush is not one but made up of many branches, so, one  of Christ is not one believer, but consists in. One branch will not make a Bush; so one will not make a body to Christ There  millions of believers go to make up Christ’s  body; many branches make up this one  And seeing all believers are branches of one  the same Bush, this should teach them union,  and agreement among themselves. 'is a unnatural like thing to see the members of the  body clashing and  tugging, with one, when they are striving, thro' grace, to hold  head, as the expression is, Con, n 19 O you  are branches of this Bush, beware of crashing  dashing against one another, considering how  is it to behold the branches destroying the  'tis true indeed in a stormy wind, the