' Book III. Looking unto :jejtU, Chap.ISed. 5 1 .R1ion is ofdivcrfe forts, as natural a~d myfHcal;accidental & fubftantial;effential and integral. But I thall palfe thefe by; a~d fpeak onelyofthefeforts. 1. When one of the things united is turned into the other , as when a drop of water is poured into a veffel ofwine. 2. When both the things united are changed iQ _nature abd e!fence, as when the elements are united to makernixt or compounded bodies. 3. When there is no change of thtngs united , but the confl:itution of a third ~ature out of them both , as is the union ofthefoul and body. 4 · When there is neither a· change of the natures united, nor conllitution of a th ird out of them both , but onely the founding , feeling, and ftaying of the one ofthe things united in the other, and tl1e drawing ofit into the unity of the perfonal being, or fubfillence of the other: fo the branch ofa tree being put upon the flock of another tree, it is drawn into the unity ofthe fobfiftence of that tree into which it is put: and whereas ifit had·been fee in the ground, it would have grown as a feparate tree in it felf,now it groweth in the tree, into which it is grafted, and percaineth to the unity ofit: and this kind ofunion doth of all others mofr perfectly refemble the perfonal union of the two natures ofGod and man in Chrill; wherein the nature of man that would have been a perfon in it felf, if it had been left to it felf, is ~rawn into the unity of the divine perfon, and fub!illeth In it, being prevented fro.m fubfilling in it felfby this perfonal unionand a!fumption. 2. For the thing wherein this union of two natures confifts . we fay that this union confifis in that dependance of the human~ nature on the perfon ofthe Word and in that communicating ofthe per! on, or fubfiflence of the Word with the humane nature that is alfumed; fo that it is an hypoftatical, OM perfonjll union 1 that is fuch an union as that both natures do make but one perfon of Chrift; for the better underftanding of this, we mull confider what the difference i$ betwixt nnture and perfon , and what makes an individual nature to be a perfon ; briefly thus : to 6e this, or that ' we foy' iJ an individual nature ; to 6e this , or that in and for it felf, is a perfon or /ubjiftence; to 6e this, or that in 11nd for another, is to pertain to the perfon ~r fubjijlen&e of another. Now amongft thofe created things which are 1natural1y apt to make a perfonal being,or to fublift in and for themfelves, there is a !_ery great differen'e ; for,- z. Some
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