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5. For the person assuming, and the nature assumed, and for the reason of this way; we say, 1. That the person assuming was a Divine person; it was not the Divine nature that assumed an humane person, but the Divine person that assumed an humane nature; and that of the three Divine persons, it was neither first, nor the third; neither the Father nor the Holy Ghost that did assume this nature; but it was the Son, the middle person, who was to be the middle one, that thereby, 1. He might undertake the mediation between God and us. 2. He might better preserve the integrity of the blessed Trinity in the Godhead. 3. He might higher advance man-kind by means of that relation which the second person, the Mediator did bear unto his Father: for this very end, saith the Apostle, God sent his own Son made of a woman, ¹that we might receive the Adoption of Sons; wherefore thou art no more a servant but a Son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ; intimating thereby, that what relation Christ hath unto God by nature, we being found in him, have the very same by Grace,² he was Gods Son by nature, and we are his Sons by Grace; he was in a peculiar manner the first born among many Brethren: and in him, and for him, the rest of the Brethren by grace of Adoption are accounted as first-born, Heb. 12.23.³

1. 1Gal. 4.4.5, 6.
2. 2Rom. 8.29. Exod. 4.22, 23
3. 3Heb. 2.16.