2. To show the Mystery of Christ's Person, in whom the two Natures meet; there is not only the Majesty of the God-head, but also the humane Nature by which he claims Kin of us. I observe it, because the Scripture takes notice of it; Isa. 9.6. To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the Government shall be upon his Shoulder; and his Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. What a Mixture of Titles is here! He is called a Child, yet the everlasting Father; Wonderful, yet the Counsellor, one that is intimate with his People, he gives sweet Counsel to them; He is called the mighty God, and then presently the Prince of Peace. Christ's Person is the greatest Mystery and Riddle in the World, he is God, and yet Man. He is, as the Apostle saith, Heb. 7.3. Without Father and without Mother, as Melchizedek; yet he had both Father and Mother, a Father in Heaven, and a Mother upon Earth; He was without Mother as to his Divinity, and without Father as to his Manhood. Another Place where the same Method is observed; Zech. 13.7. Awake O Sword against my Shepherd, and against the Man that is my Fellow. He is called the Man, but yet God calls him his Fellow: our Brother, and God's Son. There are so many Mysteries that meet in Christ's Person, that under the Law he could not be figured and represented by one Sacrifice; Levit. 16.15, 21. There were two Sacrifices chosen to represent Christ; there was the Goat to be slain for the Sin-Offering, and then the Scape-Goat: one was not enough, because there are in Christ two Natures, a God that could not die, and a Man that could not overcome Death. The Goat that was slain, showed he was crucified in the Flesh; and the Goat that was let go, showed that he did yet live by the Power of God; 2 Cor. 13.4. For though he was crucified through Weakness, yet he liveth by the Power of God. Or as another Apostle hath it, 1 Pet. 3.18. Being put to Death in the Flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. There was his humane Nature as he was Man, that he might die to answer the Goat that was slain; then his Divine Nature, that he might live and overcome Death.
2. To shew the Mystery of Christ's Person, in whom the two Natures meet; there is not only the Majesty of the God-head, but also the humane Nature by which he claims Kin of us. I observe it, because the Scripture takes notice of it; Isa. 9.6. To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the Government shall be upon his Shoulder; and his Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. What a Mixture of Titles is here! He is called a Child, yet the everlasting Father; Wonderful, yet the Counsellor, one that is intimate with his People, he gives sweet Counsel to them; He is called the mighty God, and then presently the Prince of Peace. Christ's Person is the greatest Mystery and Riddle in the World, he is God, and yet Man. He is, as the Apostle saith, Heb. 7.3. Without Father and without Mother, as Melchisedec; yet he had both Father and Mother, a Father in Heaven, and a Mother upon Earth; He was without Mother as to his Divinity, and without Father as to his Manhood. Another Place where the same Method is observed; Zech. 13.7. Awake O Sword against my Shepherd, and against the Man that is my Fellow. He is called the Man, but yet God calls him his Fellow: our Brother, and God's Son. There are so many Mysteries that meet in Christ's Person, that under the Law he could not be figured and represented by one Sacrifice; Levit. 16.15, 21. There were two Sacrifices chosen to represent Christ; there was the Goat to be slain for the Sin-Offering, and then the Scape-Goat: one was not enough, because there are in Christ two Natures, a God that could not die, and a Man that could not overcome Death. The Goat that was slain, shewed he was crucified in the Flesh; and the Goat that was let go, shewed that he did yet live by the Power of God; 2 Cor. 13.4. For though he was crucified through Weakness, yet he liveth by the Power of God. Or as another Apostle hath it, 1 Pet. 3.18. Being put to Death in the Flesh, but quickned by the Spirit. There was his humane Nature as he was Man, that he might die to answer the Goat that was slain; then his Divine Nature, that he might live and overcome Death.
