Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

2. The second Proposition. There was no change in the Divine Nature of the Son, when he assumed Human Nature. There was an Union of the two Natures, but no change of the Deity in to the Humanity, or of the Humanity into the Deity; both preserved their peculiar Properties: The Humanity was changed by a Communication of excellent Gifts from the Divine Nature; not by being brought into an Equality with it, for that was impossible that a Creature should become equal to the Creator; He took the Form of a Servant, but he lost not the Form of God, he despoiled not himself of the Perfections of the Deity; He was indeed emptied, and became of no reputation^*, but he did not cease to be God, though he was reputed to be only a Man, and a very mean one too: The Glory of his Divinity was not extinguished nor diminished, though it was obscured and darkened under the veil of our infirmities; but there was no more change in the hiding of it, than there is in the Body of the Sun when it is shadowed by the interposition of a Cloud; His blood while it was pouring out from his Veins was the blood of God^*; and therefore when he was bowing the Head of his Humanity upon the Cross, he had the Nature and Perfections of God; for had he ceased to be God, he had been a mere Creature, and his sufferings would have been of as little value and satisfaction as the sufferings of a Creature.

2. The second Proposition. There was no change in the Divine Nature of the Son, when he assumed Human Nature. There was an Union of the two Natures, but no change of the Deity in to the Humanity, or of the Humanity into the Deity; both preserved their peculiar Properties: The Humanity was changed by a Communication of excellent Gifts from the Divine Nature; not by being brought into an Equality with it, for that was impossible that a Creature should become equal to the Creator; He took the Form of a Servant, but he lost not the Form of God, he despoiled not himself of the Perfections of the Deity; He was indeed emptied, and became of no reputation^*, but he did not cease to be God, though he was reputed to be only a Man, and a very mean one too: The Glory of his Divinity was not extinguisht nor diminisht, though it was obscur'd and darkned under the vail of our infirmities; but there was no more change in the hiding of it, than there is in the Body of the Sun when it is shadowed by the interposition of a Cloud; His blood while it was pouring out from his Veins was the blood of God