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3. Other things of this kind cannot by force of natural causes, nor by the help of any foreign thing, ever become parts of any other created thing or pertain to the unity of the substance of any such thing; as the nature of man, and the nature of all living things; and yet by divine and supernatural working, it may be drawn into the unity of the subsistence of any of the Persons of the blessed Trinity, wherein the fullness of all being, and the Perfection of all created things, is in a more eminent sort than in themselves; for though all created things have their own being, yet seeing God is nearer to them than they are to themselves, and they are in a better fort in him than they are in themselves, there is no question but that they may be prevented and staid from being in and for themselves, and caused to be in, and for one of the divine persons of the blessed Trinity.

3. Other things of this kind cannot by force of natural causes, nor by the help of any forreign thing, ever become parts of any other created thing or pertain to the unity of the substance of any such thing; as the nature of man, and the nature of all living things; and yet by divine and supernatural working, it may be drawn into the unity of the subsistence of any of the Persons of the blessed Trinity, wherein the fulness of all being, and the Perfection of all created things, is in a more eminent sort than in themselves; for though all created things have their own being, yet seeing God is nearer to them than they are to themselves, and they are in a better fort in him than they are in themselves, there is no question but that they may be prevented and staid from being in and for themselves, and caused to be in, and for one of the divine persons of the blessed Trinity.

So that as one drop of water, that formerly subsisted in it self, if it be poured into a vessel containing a greater quantity, it becomes one in subsistence with the greater quantity of water; and as a branch of a Tree, that being set in the ground, and left to it self, would be an entire and independent tree, becomes one in subsistence with that tree into which it is grafted; so the individual nature of man assumed into the unity of one of the Persons of the Blessed Trinity, it looseth that kind of being, that naturally left to it self, it would have had, and it becomes one with the Person; for now it is not in, and for it self, but hath got a new Relation of dependence and being in another.