·---- -~-----~------------~~=-------=-~-----------· 1.Lroltmg unto j)efu..s. Book IV. '39 Chap. t. Sect. 5. both a pbylirian and a Divine; he is bur one perfon, and y~t there are two natures con– cm·ring and meering in that ~ameone 1oerfon; _fo we may ngh~l~ fay of fuch aone, dus Phyfitian is a Divine, ~nd thts Drvme rs a Phylatan; tillS Phylman Is happy m fav1ng fouls ar..d this Divine 1s careful mcurmg bod1es : even fo IS Chnft both God and man, and yet but one Chrifl ; and in that oneChrift, according to the feveral natures, are de– nominations of either pan; as that tillS man IS God, and this God1s man;_ or that this man made the wodd · and dus God d1ed upon the Crofs; but tn t!:1s hmrlttude is this defect in that the 'different natures are accidental, and not e!Temial or fubflantiaJ. ' ' " 1 he fifth and !aft, is of the Branch and Tree into which it is engraffed; as fupp&fe a Vine·branch, and an Olive-rree; now as this Olive. tree is but one, but bath two diffe– rent natures in it, and fo it beareth two kinds of fruit; and yet between the Tree and the Branch there is a compolition, not hHjPA ex his, but hu;m ad hoc (i.) nor _of a third rhingom of rhe two things united,but of one ofrhe two things united or adjoym.<d to the other. even fo Chrill: is one, but he harh two different natures, and in tb-qm he per– forms'the different at'tions pertaining to either of rhem; and yet between' rile diffe– rent natures (the divine and the humane nature) there is a compolition, not h11jtu ex hu, buth11jsu ad hoc, nor of a third narure ariling our of"thefe , but of the humane nature added or united to the divine, in unity of the L1me perfon; fo that now we may fay, as this Vine is an Olive-tree, and this Olive-tree is a Vine ; or as this Vine bears O– lives, and this Olive-tree bears Grapes, fo the Son of man is the Son of God, and the Son of God is the Son of man; or this Son of man laid rhe foundation of the earth, and thisSonof.God was born of Mary, and crucified by the JewJ. This limilitude (I take it) isrhe aptefl: and fullell: of all the other, though in fome things alfo it doth fail; for the branch bath firfi a feparare fublifl:ence in it felf, and loling it after, then it is drawn in– ro the unity of the fublifience of that Tree into which it is implanted ; but it is other– wife with thehumanenarureof Chri!l; it never had anY. fublifience of its own, until it · was united to the perfon or fublifience of the ' on of God. 5. For the perfon a!fuming, and the nature a!Tumed, and for ihe reafon of this way; we fay, r. That the perfon a!Tuming was a divine perfon ; it was nor rhe divine nature that a!Tumed an humane perfon. bur rhe divine perfon that alfumed an humane narure · and that of thethree divine pcrfons, it was neither tbe firtl, nor the third; neither th~ Father nor the holy Gho!l that did a!Tume tlri> n;rure; but it was the Son, rhe middle perfon, who was to be the middle one, rhatthereby, I. He might undtn:.ke the me– diation between God and us. 2. He might better preftrve rhe integrity of the ble!Ted Trinity in the Godhead. 3· He might higher adv.ance mankind by means of that rel-ation which the fecond perfon, the Mediator did bear unto his Farher: for this very end, faith the Apor.le, -God fent hz< own Son made of a w•man, that we might Gal. 44 ,,, 6 , recetve the Adoptzon of Som ; lVhercfore thou art r:o more t11 fervant bHt a Jon ; and zf a: [on, thw afl heir of God through Chrift; intimating thereby, that what relation Chrifi bath unto God by natrir;e, we being found in hirn, have thevery fame by Grace, he was Gods Son by nature, and we are his fons by ·Grace ; he was ir: a peculiar manner · the jirft·born among m11ny Brethren; and in him, and for him, the reil of the Bre- Rom. 8. •P. ihren by grace of Adoption are accounted as ftrft-born, Heb. 12.23. 11 Exod.4,,,q 2. The mture aiTumed ~<:as the feed of .Abrt:h~m; for -verily he took._ >i•t on him the ~Mtlm of .Ange!J, bm he toolz. on him the feed of .Abraham; elfewhere the Apofile calls Hcb. '·' 6 : 1t the feed of David: He i& made of the feed of David according to the jiejh; and ~lfe- Rom. ,, ;. where he IS called the feed of the Woman : I will pm enmity bmveen theeand the woman, Gen. 3· ')• and between thy feed and herf:ea ; and whan the f~<Lrzcfo •f time wauome ,God Jent forth hi& Gal. 4· 4• Son made ofawoman; no qudlion fhe was the pa!Tive and material principle of which that precrous fleth was made,and the holy Ghoil: the agent and effidem; that ble!Ted womb -of h~r was the Bride-Chamber, wherein the holy Ghoft did knit rhat indi!Toluble knot -betWIXt our humane Nature and his Deity ; the Son of God a!Tuming into the unity of ius perfon rhat wluch before he wa. nor, even our humane N.!ture. 0 with what afl:onrllrment may we behold our dull: and afhes a!Tumed into the unity of Gods own perfon! . 3• For the reafon of this way ; why did the perfon a!Tume a nati.r:·e ? or rather, why d1d not the perfon of rhe Son 0f God joyn it felf to a perfect perfon of the Son of man ? 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