220 5:0e19arraottp Ofthe Zttributlz5, Chap. Ii the eminent efeets, the Graces and Comforts that pro- ceed -from it but he is prefent in Chrif in a fingular and tranfcendent manner. The Humanity is related to the Word not only as a Creature to the Author of its being, for in this regard it hath anequal relpe& to all the perlons, but by a peculiar conjunction : for 'tis ac`fuated by the fame fubfifence as the Divine Effence is in the Son, but with this difference, theone is volun- tary, the other necef ary ; the one is efpoufed by Love, the other received by Nature. Now from this intimate Union, there is a communi- cation of the 1pecial qualities of both natures to the PerronofChrif :. Man isexalted to be the Son ofGod, and the Word abafed tobe the SonofMan. As by reafon of the vital Union between the Soul and Body, the el- fential parts of Man, 'tis truly Paid that he is rational in refped of his Soul, and mortal in relped of his body. This Union derives an infinite merit to the obedience of Chrift. For the humane nature having its comple- ment from the Divine Perlon, 'tis not thenature limply confidered, but the perfon that is the Fountain of adi- ons. To iilufrate this by an inflance : the civil Law determines that a Tree tranfplanted from one Soil to Plantata& another, and takingRoot there, belongs to theowner confita lot Colo of that ground;. in regard that receiving nourifhment` ceaant a ju- from a new Earth, it becomes as it were another Tree 71S Conflituti, , cujus ratio eft though there be the fame individual Root, the fame aiantur Colo Body and the fameSoul of vegetation as before. Thus dt lur sell. sr the humane nature taken from the common mats of pan. Mankind, and tranfplanted by perfonal Union into the Divine, is to be reckoned as intirely belonging to the Divine, and the aEìions proceeding from it are not meerlyhumane,but are railed above their natural worth, and become meritorious. One hour of Chrifs Life glorified God more, than aneverlalting duration îpen by
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