2 96 The Nature of the Perfo!! o/CIJrift, and t!Je Son ofGod. (2.) The Vnion of the two Natures in that fin · gle Perfon wbich is confequentia.l thereon. (3 ) The Mu– tual Communication of thofe difl:in..st Natures the Divine and Humane by vertueofthatUnion. (4.) The Enuntiations or l?ra:dication's concerning tl~e Perfon ofChrifr, which follow on .that V ,nion and Communion: The firfi thing in the Divine Confl:ituticn of the Perfon of Chrifi as God and Man, is A(fumption. That ineffable Di- . vine .ACt I intend,~ whereby the Perfon of the Son of God, a.f{umedour Nature, or took it into a perfonal fub{ifl:ence with himfel£ This the Scripture expreffeth fometimes aEfively with refpefr unto the Divine Nature act-ing in the Perfon of the Son, the Nature aifuming; fometimespa.J]ive-. !Jwith refpeCt unto the Humane Nature, the Nature aj[u– med. The firfi it cloth, Heb. 2. 14, 16. Fora{much as the Children are partakers offiejh and blood,he alfo himfelflikewift tool: part of the fame. For veri!J he took not on him the Nature of Angels, but he tookon him thefeedof Abraham, Phi/.2.6, 7 _. Being in tbe form of God, he took on htm the form ofa Servant; and in fundry other places.. The AJ[umpti~n, the taking of our Humane Nature to be h1s own, by an meffableafr of his Power 'and Grace, is cltarly exprefTed. And to take it tobe his own, his own Nature, can be no otherwife but by giving it a fobjijlence in his own Perfon; otherwife his own Nature it is not, nor can be. Hence God is faid to purchaje his Church with his own blood, At1.2o 28. That Relation and De– nomination of his ow1.~, is from the fingle perfon ofhimwhofe 1t 1s. The latter is declared, John I. 14. i!Je Word was made fiejh, Rom· 8. )· Godfent his own Son in the likenefs of Jinful fiejh,Gal. 4- 4·· Made of awoman made under the Law, Rom. I.) · Made of the fe_ed ofDa·vid according to the flejh. The eternal Word , the Son of God, was not marle jiejh, not made ofa Woman, nor of the feed of Da·virl, by the converjion .of his futflance
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