A53669:223
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of the person and satisfaction of Christ / accommodated to the capacity and use of such as may be in danger to be seduced, and the establishment of the truth by J. Owen.
London: printed by R.W. for Nath. Ponder, 1669
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And this is that which the Faith of Believers rests in, as that which is plainly revealed unto them; namely, that Jesus Christ is God and Man in one Person; and that all his actings in their behalf are the actings of him who is God and Man; and that this Son of God, God and Man, is to be believed in by them, and ⟨p. 145⟩obeyed that they have Eternal Life.
What is farther added unto these express testimonies, and the full Revelation of the Truth contained in them in this matter, in way of explication educed from them, and suitable unto them, to the edification of the Church, or information of the minds of Believers in the right apprehension of this great Mystery of God manifested in the flesh, may be reduced to these heads.
What is farther added unto these express testimonies, and the full Revelation of the Truth contained in them in this matter, in way of explication educed from them, and suitable unto them, to the edification of the Church, or information of the minds of Believers in the right apprehension of this great Mysterie of God manifested in the flesh, may be reduced to these heads.
(1.) That the Person of the Son of God, did in his assuming humane nature to be his own, not take an individual Person of any one into a near conjunction with himself, but preventing the personal subsistence of humane nature in that flesh which he assumed, he gave it its subsistence in his own Person, whence it hath its individuation and distinction▪ from all other persons whatever This is the Personal Union. The Divine and humane nature in Christ ⟨p. 146⟩