128 Book IV. I.Lm!tmg unto 'j}cfn.s. Cb,lp.I.Sect 5 . Pfal. ,. 7· Col.,; 9· SoPaul, fpeaking of JefP-' Chrift the Son of God, be reli;~he w-;;;;,deofrbe feed of David according to thejlefh, and declared to berhe Son of God with power, according to tiJe Spirit. I. Made of the feed of Davtd; of the fub!lane< of the Virgin, who wa~ Davids pofierity. 2. Declared to be the Son of God; not mad~ the Son of God, as he was made tbeSon of man; but declared to be the Son of God: The word in the Orini. nallignifies a Declaration by a folemn fentence or definitive judgment. I will declare ~he Decree; the Lordhath J~id unto me, · Tho11 art my Son. That which I pcint at be j· ~he Son of Da:'id,>\[ artplf!l., in refpeet ofhis Manhood; and he is the Son of God,'(!' ~"J...««: mrefpeet of !us Godhead; here be the two Natures : but in the words before, tbefe two ~atures make but one Son, .J efus Chrifi our Lord: and in the very WO)"ds tbemfelves he IS decla~ed to be the Son of God; he doth not fay, Sons, as of rwo; but his Son Jc• JH4 Chr-Jft, firll: befo~e, _and then after; to lhew unto us, that a! before his n:akjr.g, [o after h1s mak.!ng, he 1s fi1ll but one Son, or one perfon of rhe two diflinet nature• fubfifl.. ing. To the fame purpofe is tha:fame Text, In him dl!lelleth .t/1 the fu/nefsof the Godhead bod•!Y; by the umon of the diV!ne narur~ With the humane tn the unity of his perfon, rhe Godheaddwellethm Chnfi as rhe foul m the body: it dl!le!lerhinhimboddy· nor·fce– mingly, but really, truly. and indeed; not figuratively, and in a fhadow, as'he dwel– leth in the Temple; not by power and efficacy, as he dwells in all the Creatures· nor by Gra.ce, as in his People; nor by Glory, as in the Sai~m above; but dfenrial!y, fubfiantJal!y, perfonally, the human~ nature berng alfumed mto union with rhe perfon of the Word. .Obferve the palfages_; he in whom that ftilncfs dwells, is the perfon; that fulne(s, which dothfo dwell m h1m, " the nature; now there dwells in him not only the fulnefs of the Godhead, but the fulnefs of the Manhood alfo; for we believe him to be both perfetl: God, begotten of rhe fubflance of his Father before all worlds; and per– feet m:m, made of the fub!lance of his Mother in this world ; only he in whom the ful– nefs of the Godhead dwellerh, is one ; and he in whom the fulnefsof the Manhood dwel– leth, is another; but he in whom rhe fulnefs of borh thefe natures dwelletll, is one and the fame Immamul, and confequently one and the fame perfon; in him, (i.) in his per– fan dwelleth all the fulnefs of the Godhead, and all the fulnefs of the :tvkmhood; Inhim dJvellerh all the fulnefs of the Godhead bodily. 4- For the fimilitudes that refemble, or fer forth this myfrery, many are given; but for our better underflanding, let us confider rhefe few.-- The firfi is of theloul and body, that make but one man; as thefoul and body are two difiind: things, and of feveral natures ; yet being united by the hand of God, they make one perfon; fo the Godhead andManhood are two di!linct things, and of feveral Natures; yet being united by the hand of God, they make but one perfon. Indeed herein is rhe limilirude defeetive; firfi, in that the foul and body being imperfeCt na– tures, they concur to make one full and perfect nature of a man: 'econdly, in that the one of them is not drawnintotheuniry of thefubfiflence of the other, but both depend of a third fubfifience,which is that of the whole. · The fecond is of the Light and Sun ; as after the colle.:tion and union of the Light wirb the BQdy of the Sun, no man can pluck them afunder; nor doth any man call one part the Sun, and another part the Light; but both of them joint!)' together, we call the Sun: even fo after the union of fiefh with that true Light rhe Word, no man dorh call the Word apart to be one Son of God, and the Son of man another Son o_f God ; but both of them jointly rogerher, we call one and the felf-fame ChrJil:. I know m th1s fin:drrudeare many 7ujlin MarrJr defeetives;yet if hereby we be not altogether able tO attam the:trurh of thts great Myftery, de reil• conjef. certainly we hAve herein11 moft exce/lentjimilitllde, which willgreatly help, and contentedde Cotjfoor. h d d d r. h .,,.. h. d' . h Trinir. ly fu.ffice t ego Ly_an mo erAte 1 ea:c ers{}_J tu J.Vmetrm • . The third is of a fiery ahdflammg Sword: as the fubfill:ences of the Frre and Sword are fo nearly conjoyned, that the o.perations of them for the moll part concur ; .for a fiery fword in cutting, byrneth,. an~ mburnrng, ctmeth ;, and we _mal' fay of rh~ whole, that this fiery thing is a fi1arp p1ercmg fword, and that rJ:IS /harp pl_<rctng fwor~ IS afierY. thing; even fo in the union of the two natures of Chnft, ther~ IS a communrcarron ot properties from one of ehem to the oth~r, as fi1all be declared,. tf the Lord permtt; on– ly this limilirude is dffeetive in this, m that the nature ofthe rro~ Is not drawn tnro rite unity of the fubfi!tence of fire, nor is the nature.of rhe_fire drawtl mto the umry of the fubfillence of Iron. fo that we cannot fay, this fire 1s Iron, or thts Iron ts fite. 1 . The fourth is of ~ne man having two qualities, or accidental natures; as a man t blat • 1 s . - or 1
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