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The second is of Light and Sun: as after the Collection of, and Union of the Light with the Body of the Sun, no man can pluck them asunder: nor doth any man call one part the Sun, and another part the Light: but both of them jointly together, we call the Sun: even so after the Union of Flesh with that true Light the Word, no man doth call the Word apart to be one Son of God, and the Son of Man another Son of God: but both of them jointly together, we call one and the self-same Christ. I know in this similitude are many defectives:¹ yet if hereby we be not altogether able to attain the truth of this great Mystery, certainly we have herein a most excellent similitude, which will greatly help, and contentedly suffice the godly and moderate searchers of this divine truth.

The second is of Light and Sun: as after the Collection of, and Union of the Light with the Body of the Sun, no man can pluck them asunder: nor doth any man call one part the Sun, and another part the Light: but both of them jointly together, we call the Sun: even so after the Union of Flesh with that true Light the Word, no man doth call the Word apart to be one Son of God, and the Son of Man another Son of God: but both of them jointly together, we call one and the self-same Christ. I know in this similitude are mamy defectives:¹ yet if hereby we be not altogether able to attain the truth of this great Mystery, certainly we have herein a most excellent similitude, which will greatly help, and contentedly suffice the godly and moderate searchers of this divine truth.

1. 1Justin Martyr de recta confes. de Coessent. Trinit.

The third is of a fiery and flaming Sword: as the subsistences of the Fire and Sword are so nearly conjoined, that the operations of them for the most part concur: for a fiery sword in cutting, burneth, and in burning, cutteth: and we may say of the whole that this fiery thing is a sharp piercing Sword, and that this sharp piercing Sword is a fiery thing: even so in the union of the two natures of Christ, there is a communication of properties from one of them to the other, as shall be declared, if the Lord permit: only this similitude is defective in this, in that the nature of the Iron is not drawn into the unity of the subsistence of fire, nor is the nature of the fire drawn into the Unity of the subsistence of Iron: so that we cannot say, this fire is Iron, or this Iron is fire.