The Fountain of Life Opened

¹True, The natural union betwixt his Soul and Body was dissolved by death for a time, but this Hypostatical union remained even then as entire and firm as ever.² For though his Soul and Body were divided from each other; yet neither of them from the Divine Nature. Divines assist our conception of this mystery by an apt illustration. A man that holds in his hand a Sword sheathed, when he pleaseth, draws forth the Sword; but still holds that in one hand, and the sheath in the other, and then sheaths it again, still holding it in his hand; so when Christ dyed his Soul and Body retained their union with the Divine Nature, though not (during that space) one with another.

¹True, The natural union betwixt his Soul and Body was dissolved by death for a time, but this Hypostatical union remained even then as intire and firm as ever.² For though his Soul and Body were divided from each other; yet neither of them from the Divine Nature. Divines assist our conception of this mysterie by an apt illustration. A man that holds in his hand a Sword sheathed, when he pleaseth, draws forth the Sword; but still holds that in one hand, and the sheath in the other, and then sheaths it again, still holding it in his hand; so when Christ dyed his Soul and Body retained their union with the Divine Nature, though not (during that space) one with another.

1. 1Resolution.
2. 2Tolletus rem sic •leganter ill•strat. Quemadmodum homo habens ensem in vagina, q•ando vult exe•it ••s•m, & tamen un• manu vaginam tenet & altera ser; sic divina pe sona per mortem, animam à corpore veluti ensem à vagina speravit, utramque tamen partem sibi habuit unitam: per resurrectionem autem aimam corpori copulavit, quasi ensem repoens in vagina.