sanctification, and redemption;' by this word I saw the other
sentence true. For, by this scripture, I saw that the man Christ
Jesus, as he is distinct from us as touching his bodily presence, so
he is our righteousness and sanctification before God. Here,
therefore, I lived for some time very sweetly at peace with God
through Christ. Oh! methought, Christ, Christ! There was nothing
but Christ that was before my eyes. I was not now for looking upon
this and the other benefits of Christ apart, as of his blood, burial,
or resurrection, but considering him as a whole Christ, as he is when
all these, and all other his virtues, relations, offices, and
operations met together, and that he sat on the right hand of God in
heaven. 'Twas glorious to me to see his exaltation, and the worth
and prevalency of all his benefits; and that because now I could look
from myself to him, and would reckon that all those graces of God
that now were green on me, were yet but like those cracked groats and
fourpence-halfpennies that rich men carry in their purses, when their
gold is in their trunks at home: Oh! I saw my gold was in my trunk
at home! in Christ my Lord and Saviour. Now Christ was all; all my
RIGHTEOUSNESS, all my SANCTIFICATION, and all my REDEMPTION.

"Further, the Lord did also lead me into the mystery of union with
the Son of God; that I was joined to him, that I was 'flesh of his
flesh, and bone of his bone' (Eph. v. 30); and now was that word of
St Paul sweet to me. By this also was my faith in him as my
righteousness the more confirmed in me; for if he and I were one,
then his righteousness was mine, his merits mine, his victory also
mine. Now could I see myself in heaven and earth at once: in heaven
by my Christ, by my head, by my righteousness and life; though on
earth by my body or person. Now I saw Christ Jesus was looked upon
of God, and should also be looked upon by us, as that common or