CqePoo? F.; ano fatnitpZook. 445 moil intimately near to all men, and efpecially all Saints, is no wonder ; For he is more than tkeSoul of the -World : But his unionwith theManhood ofchrifi is an extraordinary Conjuntti- ©nfor extraordinaryWork; Though the manner of it is above our reach. It was not by turning the God-head into Man, nor the Man-hood into the God-head ;; nor dottii the Divine Nature lofeby it any of his Perfection, or Honour. And he that feeth how the fame Sun loth infinuate it 'felt into forne Creatures' as their very life, and yet leave others lifelefs , will not think it incredible that God fhould more nearly unite himlelf to Chrifis humanity than to others. We can hardly keep forne Philofophers from believing that all mens fouls are parts ofGod ; and yet as hardlyget other s to believe that God is fo united to one man as tomaketone perfon. 6. Yet we muft in this myftery take heed what notions we ufe : Wemutt not faythat theGod-head is apart ofthe Perlon of Chrift ; for God cannot be part of any thing; For he is Infinite : And a part is lefs than the whole; and therefore not Infinite. Nor yet muft we,fay, that the God-head is the whole Perfon ; Part andwhole are not words to behere uled : But God and Man are one chrifi. As Godand creatures are one univerfe of Being; And yet God is not to be called thewhole or partof that Uni- verfe. 7. Nor mutt we think that the God-head is inflead ofa hu- mane Soul to Chrift'sFle(h, and that he had no other Soul : For he was perfea Man, having humane foul and body, which the God-head afiumed into perfonal Union ; and was as a Soul to his .Soul. Much lefs was the God-head turned into humanity, or any way altered. g. Chrift was not generated as other menare, but without manwas conceived by the Holy Ghofi; that is, by the God-head operating outwardly by the Divine effeLtual will or Love, and eminentlyby the third Perfon in the Trinity. Yet is Chriífi ra- ther called the Son of the Father than of the Holy Ghofì, becaule theFather isthe firft inorder ofoperation. Adams Soul was created,and not generated : Our Souls are ge- nerated, and not meerly created of nothing : that is, God as the Fountain of Natural being, giveth multiplyed Effences wholly from hinafelf; yet not ás he firfi created things of nothing, but by an incomprehenfible influenceon, andufe of, the generating Souls; which, under God, have a caufality in the multiplication, But Chrifì's Soul was neither meerly generated ,nor meerly crea_ ted ; butwas principally created, fo far as it was conceived by the
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