a relation anterior to the actual, personal, spiritual conjunction that is established in regeneration. (2.) Nor, in the second place, are the necessities of the case met by a reference to the Incarnation. No doubt this also is an invaluable relation—an indispensable element of conjunction—between the Redeemer and the redeemed. That a union should subsist between Christ and His people, such as is implied in their possession of a common nature, is of vital moment. “Forasmuch then as the children are
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