The Fountain of Life Opened

Thirdly, Moreover, Jesus Christ did not only neglect the Angelical,§3 and assume the humane nature; but he also assumed the humane nature, after sin had blotted the original glory of it, and withered up the beauty, and excellency thereof. For he came not in our nature before the fall, whilst as yet its glory was fresh in it; but came as the Apostle speaks, Rom. 8.3. in the likeness of sinful flesh, (i. e.) in flesh that had the marks, and miserable effects, and consequents of sin upon it. I say not that Christ assumed sinful flesh, or flesh really defiled by sin. That which was born of the Virgin was an holy thing. For by the power of the highest, (whether by way of manufacture, as some; or the energetical command and ordination of the Holy-Ghost, as others; or by his benediction and blessing, I here dispute not) that whereof the body of Christ was to be formed, was so sanctified that no taint or spot of original pollution remained in it. But yet though it had not intrinsical native uncleanness in it, it had the effects of sin upon it; yea, it was attended with the whole troop of humane infirmities, that sin at first let into our common nature. Such as hunger, thirst, weariness, pain, mortality, and all those natural weaknesses and evils that clog our miserable natures, and make them groan from day to day under them.

Thirdly, Moreover, Jesus Christ did not only neglect the Angelical,§3 and assume the humane nature; but he also assumed the humane nature, after sin had blotted the original glory of it, and withered up the beauty, and excellency thereof. For he came not in our nature before the fall, whilst as yet its glory was fresh in it; but came as the Apostle speaks, Rom. 8.3. in the likeness of sinful flesh, (i. e.) in flesh that had the marks, and miserable effects, and consequents of sin upon it. I say not that Christ assumed sinful flesh, or flesh really defiled by sin. That which was born of the Virgin was an holy thing. For by the power of the highest, (whether by way of manufacture, as some; or the energetical command and ordination of the Holy-Ghost, as others; or by his benediction and blessing, I here dispute not) that whereof the body of Christ was to be formed, was so sanctified that no taint or spot of original pollution remained in it. But yet though it had not intrinsecal native uncleanness in it, it had the effects of sin upon it; yea, it was attended with the whole troop of humane infirmities, that sin at first let into our common nature. Such as hunger, thirst, weariness, pain, mortality, and all those natural weaknesses and evils that clog our miserable natures, and make them groan from day to day under them.