these things, and the declaration of the nature of what shall be proved afterward. And, in the first place, we shall inquire into the foundation of this dispensation of God, and the equity of it, or the grounds whereinto it is resolved; without an understanding whereof the thing itself cannot be well apprehended. The principal foundation hereof is,—that Christ and the church, in this design, were one mystical person; which state they do actually coalesce into, through the uniting efficacy of the