An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 5. Q. But wherein then lieth the Hypostatical Union, if God be equally near to all things?

Ans. He doth not equally operate on all: As the God of Nature, he sustaineth and operateth on all his Creatures: As the God of Grace, he worketh Holiness on Believers Souls: As the God of Glory, he is present demonstratively and gloriously to the Blessed: But he worketh on none as he did on the humane nature of Christ: These three differences I conceive make this proper sort of Union. 1. Some Works God doth, though by essential Proximity, yet not without the use and operation of second Causes: But Christ's assuming the humane nature by the divine, was by Conception by the Holy Ghost, as the immediate Efficient, without the Causality of Man or Angel, the Mother affording Matter and Aliment to the foetus.

2. Divine Operations being various, the Divine Nature did that on the Humane Nature of Christ, which it did not on any other Creature: He having ⟨p. xxvi⟩such Work to do, as no other Creature was to do, the divine nature fitted the humane for its part. No Angel was to be Mediator between God and Man, and to work Miracles as he did, and in our nature to fulfil all Righteousness, and be a Sacrifice for Sin, and to rise from the Dead, and to send down the Spirit, and ascend to Glory, and there to reign and to judge the World: Therefore he was qualified for all this work.

2. Divine Operations being various, the Divine Nature did that on the Humane Nature of Christ, which it did not on any other Creature: He having ⟨p. xxvi⟩such Work to do, as no other Creature was to do, the divine nature fitted the humane for its part. No Angel was to be Mediator between God and Man, and to work Miracles as he did, and in our nature to fulfill all Righteousness, and be a Sacrifice for Sin, and to rise from the Dead, and to send down the Spirit, and ascend to Glory, and there to reign and to judge the World: Therefore he was qualified for all this work.