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 "ſpot, or wrinkle, or any ſuch thing, unto the father at the laſt day". The Buſh, ſirs, is nearly related to Chriſt, and dearly bought by him too. She is united to him as a living root, and this is the proper, the ſole foundation from where all radical moiſture and bleſſings flow. All the ſpiritual bleſſings, that are the property of the Church ſpring from this root alone. If you cannot ſay you are united to Jeſus Chriſt, you are yet ſtrangers to the ſpiritual ſap and juice that is in him. If you have no union with this bleſſed root, you have no communion with him in the holineſs of his nature, the righteouſneſs of his life, and the ſatisfaction he made to law and juſtice for ſin; you have no intereſt in his triumphant aſcenſion to heaven, and his prevalent interceſſion within the vail; and ſo muſt needs be in a very diſmal and lamentable ſituation. O ſirs, as you are by nature united unto ſin and Satan, to endeavour by grace, to be disjoined therefrom and united to Jeſus Chriſt the living and life-giving root.

3. The Church of Chriſt is called or compared to a Buſh. Why? Becauſe as a Buſh is not one branch but made up of many branches; ſo one church of Chriſt is not one believer, but conlſiſts in many. One branch will not make a buſh; ſo one believer will not make a body to Chriſt. There are millions of believers go to make up Chriſt's myſtical body: many branches make up this one Buſh, and ſeeing all believers are branches of one and the ſame buſh, this should teach them unity, harmory and agreement is a  more unnatural   members of the same body  together when they are striving  and the head as the expreſſion,  that are branches of this Buſh  and daſhing againſt one another;  unſeemly it is to behold the branches  burn! 'Tis true indeed in a ſtormy wind, the branches