; Qeffions,andCafes ofConfeience fo that therearc two diflin&Natures in him : and two fo dif+in&, that they do not make one compounded nature, but Hill remain uncompounded, and un- confounded to>-ether : But he in whom thefulneffe of the manhood dwells, is not one : and he in whom thefulneffe of the Godhead, another : but he in whom the fulnetic of both thofe natures dwelleth, is one and the fame Im- manuel, andconfequently he is but one perfon. Quell. What is further to be confideredAbout this ? Aniw. That the Divine nature did not a(liime an humaneperfon, but the Di- vinePerfpn did affume an humane nature : and that of the three Divine Per- fons, it was neither the firfl, nor the fecond, that did affutne this humane na- ture ; but it was the middle Perfon, whowas to be themiddle one, that muf+ undertake this Mediation betwixtGod and us : whichwas otherwise alfo mot+ requifite, as well tor the better prefetvacion of the integrity of thebleffed Tri- nity in the.Godhead, as for the higher advancement' ofmankind by means of that relationwhich the fecondPerfon, the Mediatour,did beare unto his Father. For if the fulneffe of the godhead thould thus have dwelt in any humane Perfon, there fhouli then a fourthPerfon havebeen =airily addedto the Godhead : and if any of the three Perfons, befides the fecund, hadbee tborne ofa woman, there fhould have been twe oes in the Trinity, whereas now the Son of God , and the Son of the bleffedVirgin, beingbut one Perron. is confequently but one Son, and fo there isno alteration at all made in the re- lations of thePerfonsof the Trinity. Again, in refpeó} ofus, God fent his ownSon made of awoma n,, thattws might receive the Adoption of fans, 'gai.4.4, 5, 7. and if afox, rhsnanheirs of God ahroughChriff: intimating thereby, that what relation Chril+ hath to God by nature,, we, being found in him, have the fame by grace, ahnt. 14. and 3. 16. with Tax t. tz. Forthough he referve to himfelfthe preeminence which is due to him in a peculiar manner of being the fief+-borne etnotgfl many brethren, Rom 8. 29. yet in him, and for him, the ref+ likewife by the grace of Adoption, are all of them accounted as fir-I-borne, Exod. 4. 22, 23. HA. :z. 23: Rw.8.t7. Quefè. What is the Nature affumed by the Son of God? Jnfw. The feed of 4fbraham, Iieb. z.t6. the`feedof David, Rom. t. 3. the feedof the woman, Gen. 3. 15. the Word, the fecond Perfon of the Tri- nity being made flefh, a John 5..7. Neither did he take the fubilance ofour na- ture only, but alfo all the properties and the qualities. thereof : yea, he fubje&- ed himself in the dayes of his flefh to the fame weakneffe which we find inour fraile nature, and was compaffed with the like infiratities, being in all things made like unto his brethren, Ails 14. 15. fhb. 5.7. 2 Csr.13.4. Heb. 2. 17, i S. and 4. 15. yetas he cook upon him not an humane perfon, but an hu- mane nature ; fo it was not requifite that he should take upon himanyper- fonalinfirmities, as madneffe, blindneffe, lameneffe, and particular difeafes, which are incident to force only; but thofe alone which do acccompany the whole nature ofmanlcind,as hunger, thirf+,wearineffe,grief,pain, andmortality. Quef+. &kw is fsrthes copfiderable about Chrifl ? Anfw. That as hehad no Mother in regardof one of his natures, fo he was to have no Father in regardof the other : but muff be borne of apure Virgin, without-the helpof map, J.r. 3 r. 22. and thiswas requifite, as for other refpeâs, fo for the exemptionof theaffunted nature, from the imputation and pollution of Adaws fin : For fin having by that one man entred into the world, every father becomes anAdam to-his children, conveyingthe corruption of hisnature to all whom he begets, Rom. 5. 12. but he being made of man, but not by man, and fobecoming the immediate fruitof the womb, andnot of the loynes, null neccffarily be acknowledged that holy thing, LA; 1. 3 g. the Virgin was but 6
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