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

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.

The third is of a fiery and flaming Sword: as the subsistences of the Fire and Sword are so nearly conjoyned, 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.

The fourth is of one man having two qualities, or accidental natures: as a man that is ⟨p. 139⟩both a Physician and a Divine; he is but one person, and yet there are two natures concurring and meeting in that same one Person; so we may rightly say of such a one, this Physician is a Divine, and this Divine is a Physician; this Physician is happy in saving souls, and this Divine is careful in curing bodies: even so is Christ both God and Man, and yet but one Christ; and in that one Christ, according to the several natures, are denominations of either part; as that this man is God, and this God is man; or that this man made the world: and this God died upon the Cross: but in this similitude is this defect, in that the different natures are accidental, and not essential or substantial.