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The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…
The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as it affordeth both milk for babes, and strong meat for such as are at full age / by ... Nicholas Bifield ; ... now published ... by his son, Adoniram Bifield.The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as it affordeth both milke for babes, and strong meat for such as are at full age / by ... Nicholas Bifield ; ... now published ... by his sonne, Adoniram Bifield.
London: printed by G.M. for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1626
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.
1. He did not assume the nature of man, as it is extra subiectum, or a thing that is conceived by the mind, or as it is common in the souls and bodies of all men, but as the nature of a man is in one subject, in uno individuo.
1. He did not assume the nature of man, as it is extra subiectum, or a thing that is conceiued by the minde, or as it is common in the soules and bodies of all men, but as the nature of a man is in one subiect, in vno indiuiduo.
2. The nature of man as it was in the womb of the Virgin, was in the very moment of the Conception joined to the Nature of God in personal union, so as soul and body in Christ did not make a person, as it doth in other men, but did and do subsist in the person of the Son of God, being carried and upheld by the divine nature of Christ, so as both his natures make but one person in him: and this may be gathered out of these places, Luke 1. 36. Isaiah 7. 14.
2. The nature of man as it was in the wombe of the Virgin, was in the very moment of the Conception ioyned to the Nature of God in personall vnion, so as soule and body in Christ did not make a person, as it doth in other men, but did and doe subsist in the person of the Sonne of God, being carried and vpheld by the diuine nature of Christ, so as both his natures make but one person in him: and this may bee gathered out of these places, Luke 1. 36. Esay 7. 14.
3. We may approach to a better understanding of this union, if we consider it by way of negation, how it differs from other unions: The word and the flesh are made one, not in Essence, as the Persons in Trinity are one, nor in nature as soul and body make a third nature, nor is this union carnal, as man and wife are one: nor spiritual or mystical as God and the faithful are one, or as Christ and the Church