so 44 ZJCDtfpfapofe!o Lotto oNace t Or, ` Humane Nature, fucha meafure of Holinefs, ` that he might be a common Fountain to all lob. L IÔ; ` the Ele& ; of hvs Fullnefs have all we received, andGrace for Grace. Chrift, as God-man, is ` the Fountain from whence we receive all Grace. ` 6. To give us aPledge of that Tendernefs ` of his Love andCompaffion towards us ; for ` he that is our Kinfman, Bone of our Bone, and Flejh of our Flejh, will not be ftrange to his own Fleth ; efpecially fince he is one that is ` fo not by neceffity of Nature, but by volun- tary Choice and Af nnption, we could not ` have fuch familiarand confidentrecourfe toan ` Angel, or toone of another or different Na- ture from ours ; this made Laban, thoother- ` wife a churlith Man, kind to Yacob ; Surely Gen. 27. ' thou art my Bone and my Flefh. 14. III. Chrift muff be God and Man, ifhe be a fit Mediator betwixt God andMan; i.e. he muff take our Nature into Union with his God- head, and that (z.) That we might myifically be uni- ted to God, or draw near to God, and fo be raifed up into a glorious and happy State ; for the Spring or Foundation of our Happinefs rifeth from the Hypoftatical Union of the two Natures in the Perfon of Chriff; we had never been able to have drawn near toGod,nor have been united myffically to God, had not therebeen filch an Hypoffatical Union of our Nature to the Divine Nature in Chrift's Per- fon ; for that was the Spring, I fay, and Foun- dation of our Union. (2.) More
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