·' Hypoflatical Union of his Natures decla!·ed~ 2 95 · otir whole Building in the other parts of the knowledge of hill\ will fall unto the ground. And although the faving knowledge of him is not to be obtained without efpecial Di– vine Revelation, Matth. r6. 17. or faving Illumination, r Joh. 5· 20. nor can we know him perfectly, until we come where he is to behold his Glory; I John 1 7. 24- yet. are infiructions from the Scripture of ufe to lead us into thofe farther degrees of the knowledge of him which are attainable in this life. 2. To manifdl: in particular how ineffably diflinff the Re– lation between the Son ofGod and the Man Chrifl Jefw, is from all that Relation and Union which may be between God and Believers,or between God and any other creature. The want of a true undedlanding hereof, is the fundamental Er· rour of many in our days. We flull manife!l:thereupon how, it pleafed the Father that in him jhould allfulnefs Clwell, fo thatinall thingshemig,hthave thepreem'inence, Col. r. r8, 19. And 1ihall herein wholly avoid the curious enquiries, bold conjectures, and unwarrantabledetermihations of the SchooZ: men and foine others. For many of them ,defigningto expli- . cate this_Myfiery, byexceed~ngthe bounds ofScriptureLight and facred Sobriety, haveo/Jjcured it. Endeavouring to ren– der all things plain·unto Reafon, they have exprel1ed many things uttf~?tnd as unto Faith, and fallen into manifold contra, difrions among thcmfelves. Hence Aquinas affirms that three of the waies ofdeclaring the Hypoflatical Vnion which are propofed by the Mafler cftJ;e fentences, are fo far from probable opinions,as that they are c.'oum-rig,ht Her~(ies. I f11a1l therefore confine my felf in the explication of this Myfiery · unto the Propofitions of Divine Revelation, with the ju..'l: and· neceffary expofitions ofthem. What the Scripture reprefents of the1¥ifdom ofGodin this great work, may 'be reduced unto thefe four Heads. (r). The Affumption of our Nature into perfonal fubfifience with the Son
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