A vindication of some passages in a discourse concerning communion with God from the…

Although there be nothing in the Person of Christ but his Divine and Humane Nature, yet the Person of Christ is neither his Divine Nature nor his Humane. For the Humane Nature is and ever was of it self [Greek or Hebrew], and the Divine to the complete Constitution of the Person of the Mediator in and unto its own Hypostasis assumed the Humane, so that although every Energy or Operation be [Greek or Hebrew], ⟨p. 141⟩and so the distinct Natures are distinct Principles of Christ's operations, yet his Person is the Principal or only Agent, which being God-Man, all the Actions thereof by virtue of the Communication of Properties of both Natures therein are Theandrical; And the Excellency of this Person of Christ wherein he was every way fitted for the work of Mediation I call sometimes his Personal Grace, and will not go to him to Learn to speak and express my self in these things. And it is most false which he affirms pag. 203. That I distinguish the Graces of Christ's Person as Mediator, from the Graces of his Person as God and Man. Neither could any Man have run into such an Imagination, who had competently understood the things which he speaks about. And the bare proposal of these things is enough to defeat the Design of all his ensuing Cavils and Exceptions.

Although there be nothing in the Person of Christ but his Divine and Humane Nature, yet the Person of Christ is neither his Divine Nature nor his Humane. For the Humane Nature is and ever was of it self 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and the Divine to the compleat Constitution of the Person of the Mediator in and unto its own Hypostasis assumed the Humane, so that although every Energy or Operation be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, ⟨p. 141⟩and so the distinct Natures are distinct Principles of Christ's operations, yet his Person is the Principal or only Agent, which being God-Man, all the Actions thereof by vertue of the Communication of Properties of both Natures therein are Theandrical; And the Excellency of this Person of Christ wherein he was every way fitted for the work of Mediation I call sometimes his Personal Grace, and will not go to him to Learn to speak and express my self in these things. And it is most false which he affirms pag. 203. That I distinguish the Graces of Christ's Person as Mediator, from the Graces of his Person as God and Man. Neither could any Man have run into such an Imagination, who had competently understood the things which he speaks about. And the bare proposal of these things is enough to defeat the Design of all his ensuing Cavils and Exceptions.