A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

First, It is here said, that which was from the beginning, to signify and set forth unto us, a double nature in one and the same word of life, in one and the same person of Christ; If he had said, he who was from the beginning, whom we have seen, &c. It might have been thought that the same word of life was in one and the same nature, both from the beginning, and seen, and heard, or else that one person was from the beginning, another person seen, and heard, but when he saith, that word of life, which was from the beginning, and that which we have heard, and seen, &c. he plainly insinuateth, that there is (as they say) aliud & aliud, in the word of life.

First, It is here said, that which was from the beginning, to signifie and set forth unto us, a double nature in one and the same word of life, in one and the same person of Christ; If he had said, he who was from the beginning, whom we have seen, &c. It might have been thought that the same word of life was in one and the same nature, both from the beginning, and seen, and heard, or else that one person was from the beginning, another person seen, and heard, but when he saith, that word of life, which was from the beginning, and that which we have heard, and seen, &c. he plainly insinuateth, that there is (as they say) aliud & aliud, in the word of life.

There was something of the word of life, that was from the beginning, as namely his Godhead; And again, something in the same word of life that was heard, and seen, &c. as his Manhood, and withal, that this was not another person, but another thing, another nature in the same person. This serves to confute those two Ancient Heresies of Eutiches and Nestorius, he confounding the Natures this dividing the persons of Christ. Eutiches confuted, because something there is of the word of life that was from the beginning, something of the same word of life that was heard, and seen, &c. that which was from the beginning, was not the same thing which was heard, and seen, &c. and that which was heard, and seen, &c. was not the same thing which was from the beginning.

There was something of the word of life, that was from the beginning, as namely his Godhead; And againe, something in the same word of life that was heard, and seen, &c. as his Manhood, and withall, that this was not another person, but another thing, another nature in the same person. This serves to confute those two Antient Heresies of Eutiches and Nestorius, he confounding the Natures this dividing the persons of Christ. Eutiches confuted, because something there is of the word of life that was from the beginning, something of the same word of life that was heard, and seen, &c. that which was from the beginning, was not the same thing which was heard, and seen, &c. and that which was heard, and seen, &c. was not the same thing which was from the beginning.