Those taught by God the Father, to know God the Son

1. There is a seeming impossibility in it. There is an infinite distance between God and ⟨p. 6⟩Man, and that they should be United in One is beyond our comprehension. That God should be Man and Man should be God, seem to imply a contradiction. There is a seeming necessity that if there be two Natures in Christ, there must also be two Persons, and that if there be but One Person, there is likewise but one Nature. It is absolutely impossible that the divine Nature should be an humane Nature, or that the humane Nature should be a divine Nature. And it seems impossible that the same Person should be both God and Man. Hence there arose so many Heresies in the Primitive Church. The Manichees and Arians denied the Divine Nature of Christ: some of them said, He was a mere Man. The Marcionites denied the Humane Nature of Christ, they said He only appeared in an humane Shape, as in the time of the Old Testament: and as the Angels did often appear. The Eutychians denied Him to be distinct God and Man, they confounded the two Natures, said He had one Nature made of a Divine and Humane. Many Men have been confounded to conceive, That the Natures are distinct and yet the Person the same. And the Socinians at this day, though they acknowledge that ⟨p. 7⟩Christ is God, yet do deny that He is the Eternal and Increated God. Nestorius taught that Christ was two Persons.

1. There is a seeming impossibility in it. There is an infinite distance between God and ⟨p. 6⟩Man, and that they should be United in One is beyond our comprehension. That God should be Man and Man should be God, seem to imply a contradiction. There is a seeming necessity that if there be two Natures in Christ, there must also be two Persons, and that if there be but One Person, there is likewise but one Nature. It is absolutely impossible that the divine Nature should be an humane Nature, or that the humane Nature should be a divine Nature. And it seems impossible that the same Person should be both God and Man. Hence there arose so many Heresies in the Primitive Church. The Manichees and Arians denyed the Divine Nature of Christ: some of them said, He was a meer Man. The Marcionites denyed the Humane Nature of Christ, they said He only appeared in an humane Shape, as in the time of the Old Testament: and as the Angels did often appear. The Eutychians denyed Him to be distinct God and Man, they confounded the two Natures, said He had one Nature made of a Divine and Humane. Many Men have been confounded to conceive, That the Natures are distinct and yet the Person the same. And the Socinians at this day, though they acknowledge that