Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

The Second degree is the presence of Grace, whereby he doth not only preserve the substance of his Creature, but also gives Grace unto it; and this agrees to the Saints and Gods People on earth. The third degree is the presence of glory peculiar to the Saints and Angels in heaven, and hereby God doth not only preserve their substances, and give them plenty of his Grace, but he also admits them into his Glorious presence, so as they may behold him face to face. The fourth and last degree is that whereby the God-Head of the Son is present with, and dwells in the Manhood, giving unto it in some part his own subsistence, whereby it comes to pass that this Manhood assumed is proper to the Son, and cannot be the Manhood of the Father, or of the Holy Ghost, or of any Creature whatsoever. And this is a thing so admirable and unspeakable, that though we may find some similitudes, yet there cannot be found another example hereof in all the World.

Hence it follows that in the Manhood of Christ, consisting of Body and Soul, there is a Nature only, and not a Person; because it doth not subsist alone as other men, Peter, Paul and John do, but it wholly depends on the Person of the Word into the unity whereof it is received; and this dependence of the humane nature on the person of the Word, and the communicating of the Person or subsistence of the Word with the humane nature, is the very thing it self wherein this union consists.

Hence it follows that in the Manhood of Christ, consisting of Body and Soul, there is a Nature only, and not a Person; because it doth not subsist alone as other men, Peter, Paul and John do, but it wholly depends on the Person of the Word into the unity whereof it is received; and this dependance of the humane nature on the person of the Word, and the communicating of the Person or subsistence of the Word with the humane nature, is the very thing it self wherein this union consists.