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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Christ being God, his Death and Passion is Meritorious; Christ's Blood is called Sanguis Dei, The Bloud of God, Acts 20.28. because the Person who was offered in Sacrifice was God as well as Man. This is an invincible Support to Believers; it was God who was offended, and it was God who satisfied. Thus Christ's Person in two Natures.
Christ being God, his Death and Passion is Meritorious; Christ's Bloud is called Sanguis Dei, The Bloud of God, Acts 20.28. because the Person who was offered in Sacrifice was God as well as Man. This is an invincible Support to Believers; it was God who was offended, and it was God who satisfied. Thus Christ's Person in two Natures.
2. Consider Christ's two Natures in one Person: [Greek or Hebrew], God-Man; 1 Tim. 3.16. God manifest in the flesh. Christ had a twofold Substance, Divine and Humane, yet not a twofold Subsistence, both Natures make but one Christ: A Siens may be grafted into another Tree, a Pear-tree into an Apple, which though it bear different Fruits is but one Tree: So Christ's Manhood is united to the Godhead in an ineffable manner; yet though here are two Natures, yet but one Person. This Union of the two Natures in Christ was not by Transmutation, the Divine Nature changed into the Humane, or the Humane into the Divine; nor by Mixture, the two Natures mingled together, as Wine and Water are mixed: Both the Natures of Christ remain distinct, yet make not two distinct Persons, but one Person, the Humane Nature not God, yet one with God.
2. Consider Christ's two Natures in one Person: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, God-Man; 1 Tim. 3.16. God manifest in the flesh. Christ had a twofold Substance, Divine and Humane, yet not a twofold Subsistance, both Natures make but one Christ: A Siens may be grafted into another Tree, a Pear-tree into an Apple, which though it bear different Fruits is but one Tree: So Christ's Manhood is united to the Godhead in an ineffable manner; yet though here are two Natures, yet but one Person. This Union of the two Natures in Christ was not by Transmutation, the Divine Nature chang'd into the Humane, or the Humane into the Divine; nor by Mixture, the two Natures mingled together, as Wine and Water are mixed: Both the Natures of Christ remain distinct, yet make not two distinct Persons, but one Person, the Humane Nature not God, yet one with God.