It is not only to embrace with believing heart all the sufferings and death of Christ and thereby to obtain the pardon of sin, and life eternal; [222] but also, besides that, to become more and more united to his sacred body, [223] by the Holy Ghost, who dwells both in Christ and in us; so that we, though Christ is in heaven [224] and we on earth, are notwithstanding "flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone" [225] and that we live, and are governed forever by one spirit, [226] as members of the same body are by one soul.

[222] John 6:35, 40, 47-54.

[223] John 6:55, 56.

[224] Col. 3:1; Acts 3:21; 1:Cor. 11:26.

[225] Eph. 3:16; Eph. 5:29, 30, 32; 1:Cor. 6:15, 17, 19; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:13; John 14:23.

[226] John 6:56-58; John 15:1-6; Eph. 4:15, 16.