When a sinner closes with Christ Jesus, there is presently an admirable union, a strange oneness between God and the man. As the husband and wife, head and body, root and branches are not to be reckoned two but one, so Christ, or God in Christ, and the sinner closing with Him by faith are one. "We are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones" (Eph. 5:30). He that is so "JOINED UNTO THE LORD is one spirit" (I Cor. 6:17). As the Father is in the Son, and Christ in the Father, so believers are one in the Father and the Son; they are one, as the Father and Son are one--the Father in Christ, and Christ in believers--that they may be "MADE perfect in one." Oh what a strange interweaving and indissoluble union here! (John 17:21-26.)