Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

2. For the Pollution of our nature, it was prevented in him §. 18 from the instant of Conception Luk. 35. the holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall over shadow thee, therefore also that holy thing that shall be borne of thee, shall be called the Son of God. He was made of a Woman, Gal. 4. 6. but that portion whereof he was made, was sanctified by the Holy Ghost, that, what was borne thereof, should be an holy thing; Not only the Conjunction and Union of soul and body, whereby a man becomes partaker of his whole nature, and therein of the pollution of sin, being a son of Adam, was prevented by the sanctification of the holy Ghost, but it also accompanied the very separation of his bodily substance in the womb, unto that sacred purpose whereunto it was set apart: so that upon all accounts, he is holy, harmless, undefiled. Add now hereunto, that he did no sin, neither was there any guilt found in him, 1 Pet. 2. 22. that he fulfilled all Righteousness Mat. 3. 15. his Father being always well pleased with him, v. 17. on the account of his perfect obedience, yea even in that sense wherein he chargeth his Angels ⟨p. 72⟩with folly, and those Inhabitants of heaven, are not clear in his sight, and his Excellency and desirableness in this regard will lye before us: such was he, such he is, and yet for our sakes, was he contented not only to be esteemed by the vilest of men, to be a Transgressor, but to undergo from God, the punishment due to the vilest sinners. Of which afterwards.

2. For the Pollution of our nature, it was prevented in him §. 18 from the instant of Conception Luk. 35. the holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall over shaddow thee, therefore also that holy thing that shall be borne of thee, shall be called the Sonne of God. He was made of a Woman, Gal. 4. 6. but that portion whereof he was made, was sanctified by the Holy Ghost, that, what was borne thereof, should be an holy thing; Not only the Conjunction and Union of soule and body, whereby a man becomes partaker of his whole nature, and therein of the pollution of sinne, being a sonne of Adam, was prevented by the sanctification of the holy Ghost, but it also accompanied the very separation of his bodily substance in the wombe, unto that sacred purpose whereunto it was set apart: so that upon all accompts, he is holy, harmlesse, undefiled. Adde now hereunto, that he did no sinne, neither was there any guilt found in him,