The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

3. Jus Conjunctionis; he that redeems a Captive must be Persona conjunct a with him, and so was Christ with us in a threefold respect.

1. Conjunction naturali, he was our Goel, Isai. 59. 20. that is, our next kinsman by his Incarnation, and our Redeemer by his Passion; he assumed our Nature into himself that he might redeem us; [Greek or Hebrew] was made [Greek or Hebrew], the great God a sucking Child; regens Sydera, yet sugens Ubera, he that ruled the Stars sucked the Breasts. The word was made flesh, Joh. 1. 14. and a strange making it was; all other Creations are (as it were) extra Deum, but here was a Creation in the very person of God. The glorious Trinity in the very instant of drawing the Humane Nature exnihilo interweaved it with the Person of ⟨p. 196⟩the Son, so that it never was any where but there; all other Creations stand under the Roof of Providence and Preservation, but here the Humane Nature is an Inmate in the very same Person with the Divine: all other Creatures have their proper suitable seats and Ubi's in the Sphere of Nature, but here's the Sackcloth of an Humane Body cast upon, and the Rush-candle of a Reasonable soul lighted up in the Sun it self. The glorious Son of God espoused Flesh and Blood, and the Bridechamber (where the knot was tied) was the Virgins Womb; there was he made of a Woman, consubstantial with us as to his Humanity, who was consubstantial with the Father as to his Divinity. O how great is this Mystery, God manifest in the flesh! O Domine! quàm admirabile nomen tuum! non ¹modò mundi hujus staturam admiror, non stabilitatem Terrae, non Lunae defectum & incrementum, non Solem semper integrum & laborem ejus perpetuum: Miror Deum in utero Virginis, miror Omnipotentem in cunabulis, miror quomodo Verbo Dei caro adhaeserit, quomodo incorporeus Deus corporis nostri tegumentum induerit; in caeteris aliquae satisfaciant rations, hîc solus