'. Chap.r .sea. s. Book•.IV. 2 89 fimply in refped: of its manhood, ~ut in refped: of the perfon , which is the fame God and man; or mrefped of the divine nature of the man Chrift J efns, for that here alfo man is a concrete word and not an abftrad, and fignifie_th the whole perfon ofChrift , and not the humane nature; but on the contrary, we may: not fay , that the Godhead ofChrift was born of a Virgin,or fuffered, <>r wascrucified; nor may we fay, that the manhood ofChriit is Almighty, omnifcient, omni-prefent, becau(e the Godheadartd manhooda.reabftradwords, (i.) fuch words .as note to usthe two natures ofChrift,the one divine, and the other humane; and not the perfon ofChrift. And this I think is the mind of Luthtr and his followers, and yet ( 0 wonder) what a deal o,f ob jectil)ns are made to the multiplying of' needldfe and frui,le1fe.w~tentiom; theLutherans confdle (however they hold the ub1qU1tary prefence of the humanity of Chritl:) that his body is onely in one place locally : If we asl(.thtm (faith* Zanehim) whether Chrifts body be every * Zanehi us. il! where? they anfwer, that locally it is but in one place, b~tt that ju.di,io de difperfona/ly it iJevery where ; now if they mMn (faith he) that i11 df.o ~am~ do refpect ofe./Jence ,· his b~dJ isfinite, 11nd confined to one certain place; mm".e' · :but in refpe[J ofthe being ,offubftftence, or ofhis prrfon, it is infinit(, and every where , th(] fay the truth ; and there is no difference ~ernong/f us. Happy are the reconcilers of di1fen- . ting brethren : unto their AJfernblJ mine h~nour be thon uni-- ted. 2. The effects or benefits of this hypoftatical union ill ref-ped: of Chriftians,or their fpiritual union and communion with God and Chril.l: . 1 . There is a fpiricual union ofChriftians with God in Chrift ; 0 the wonderofthefe two ble1fed unions; fir£!:, ·of the p~rfonal or hypoftatical union, fecondly , of tltis fpiritual or myftical union in the pedonal union it pleafed God to affume and unite our humane nature: to the Deity; in this fpiritual union it pleafed God to unite the perfon of every believer to the perfon of the Son of God. This .union is myftica1 , and y.et our very perfons, na- . turei, bodies, foules are in a Jpirituar way conjoyned to the . . body. and foul of Chrift; fo that we.are members of the-body 0fl!phcf.f ·3• Chrift, ~tnd ofthe jlefh ofChrift, and of tbe bones of.Chrift · and as this conjunCtion is imme.diately made with his humane nature , P .P fo ·,
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