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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
13. Because if the Person of the Son of God had been joined to the Person of man, there should have been four Persons in the Trinity. It is very observable, how for the better preservation of the integrity of the blessed Trinity in the Godhead, the humane Nature was assumed into the unity of the second person; for if the fullness of the Godhead should have dwelt in any humane Person; there should then have been a fourth Person necessarily added unto the Godhead; and if any of the three Persons besides the second, had been born of a Woman, there should then have been two Sons in the Trinity; whereas now the Son of God, and the Son of Man, being but one Person, he is consequently but one Son; and so no alteration at all made in the relations of the Persons of the Trinity, but they are still one Father, one Son, and one Holy Ghost.
13. Because if the Person of the Son of God had been joyned to the Person of man, there should have been four Persons in the Trinity. It is very observable, how for the better preservation of the integrity of the blessed Trinity in the Godhead, the humane Nature was assumed into the unity of the second person; for if the fulness of the Godhead should have dwelt in any humane Person; there should then have been a fourth Person necessarily added unto the Godhead; and if any of the three Persons besides the second, had been born of a Woman, there should then have been two Sons in the Trinity; whereas now the Son of God, and the Son of Man, being but one Person, he is consequently but one Son; and so no alteration at all made in the relations of the Persons of the Trinity, but they are still one Father, one Son, and one Holy Ghost.
These are the deep things of God, and indeed so exceedingly mystical, that they can never be perfectly declared by any man. Bernard compares this ineffable mystery of the union of two natures, with that incomprehensible mystery of the Trinity in unity. In the Trinity is three Persons and one Nature; in Christ is two Natures and one Person; that of the Trinity is indeed the greatest, and this of the Incarnation, is like unto it; they both far exceed mans capacity; for his way is in the Sea, and his path in the great waters,