1. Christs eternal Deity. Hereof See §. 160.
2. His true Humanity; In that he took upon him the seed of man, it is evid• that he was a true man. Seed is the matter of mans nature, and the very substance thereof.
3. The root out of which Christ assumed his humane nature, even the Seed of m• ▪ It was not created of nothing, nor was it brought from heaven, but assumed […] of the Seed of man; This was thus foretold, There shall come forth a rod out of […] Stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his root, Isa. 11. 1. And an Angel t• faith of Christ to the Virgin Mary, That holy thing which shall be born of thee, L• XI. 35.
4. The subsistence of Christs humane nature in his divine nature; The humane • ture of Christ never had a subsistence in it self; At or in the very first framing • making it it was united to the divine nature, and at or in the first uniting it it […] framed or made. Philosophers say of the uniting of the soul to the body, 1In • ating it it is infused, and infusing it it is created. Much more is this true con• ning the humane nature of Christ united to his divine; Fitly therefore is it […] said, That he took on him the Seed not a Son of Abraham.
5. His two distinct Natures; He took on him mans nature, being God before So as they were two, and those two distinct natures.
6. The Union of the two Natures; He assumed or took on him the one to […] 2other, and so made of those two Natures one Person. This Union is evidenced […] these phrases, The Word was made flesh, Joh. 1. 14. God was manifested in the […] ⟨p. 137⟩1 Tim. 3. 16. Christ came of the Father, as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever, Rom. 9. 5. This true real union, the 3Greek Fathers, to free it from mistakings, have set ou• negatively and affirmatively with sundry emphatical words, as,
1. bWithout alteration or change; whereby is intended that the divine nature still remained the same; and in assuming the humanity was no wh•t at all changed; as wine is changed by putting water into it; Nor was the humane altered into the divine, as water was turned into wine, Joh. 2. 9.
2. cWithout division; So as they both make but one and the same person. They are indeed two distinct natures, but so united as both make one only person, both have one and the same subsistence.
1. Christs eternal Deity. Hereof See §. 160.
2. His true Humanity; In that he took upon him the seed of man, it is evid• that he was a true man. Seed is the matter of mans nature, and the very substance thereof.
3. The root out of which Christ assumed his humane nature, even the Seed of m• ▪ It was not created of nothing, nor was it brought from heaven, but assumed 〈…〉 of the Seed of man; This was thus foretold, There shall come forth a rod out of 〈…〉 Stem of Iesle, and a branch shall grow out of his root, Isa. 11. 1. And an Angel t• faith of Christ to the Virgin Mary, That holy thing which shall be born of thee, L• XI. 35.
4. The subsistence of Christs humane nature in his divine nature; The humane • ture of Christ never had a subsistence in it self; At or in the very first framing • making it it was united to the divine nature, and at or in the first uniting it it 〈…〉 framed or made. Philosophers say of the uniting of the soul to the body, 1In • ating it it is infused, and infusing it it is created. Much more is this true con• ning the humane nature of Christ united to his divine; Fitly therefore is it 〈…〉 said, That he took on him the Seed not a Son of Abraham.
5. His two distinct Natures; He took on him mans nature, being God before So as they were two, and those two distinct natures.
6. The Union of the two Natures; He assumed or took on him the one to 〈…〉 2other, and so made of those two Natures one Person. This Union is evidenced 〈…〉 these phrases, The Word was made flesh, Joh. 1. 14. God was manifested in the 〈…〉 ⟨p. 137⟩
- 1Crean•o i• stir, & […] crew.Crean•o i• •tur, & 〈…〉 cre•.
- 2Now Christs Natures are united.
- 3Concil. C•d.
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- c[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
