Hypoflatical Union ofh.is Natures declared". 3~ t of Peace. That the fame Perfon flwuld be the mighty GoJ, , and aChild horn, is · neither conceiveable, nor pofiible, nor can, be true, but by theVnionof the Divine and Humane ~atures in the fame Perfon. So he faid of hirp.felf, !Jefore A~ra- . ham was I am,John8. 58. That he, the fame Perron ~hothen fpake untotheJews,andas a man was little more than tbirty J'ears of Age, fuould alfo be !Jefore A!Jraham, undeniably con- . firms the Union of another Nature irt the fame Perfon with that wherein he fpake thofe words, and without which they could not be true. He had not only another Nature which did exifr before Ahraham, but the fame individual Perfon who then fpake in the Humane Nature, qid then exifr. See to the fame purpofe, John 1. 14. Afls .20. 28. Rom. 9· 5· Col. 2. 9: · I John 3· rq. . , . This Vnion the Anticnt Church affirmed to be made dTps-rrw), without.any chang,e~n- the Perfon ofthe Son of God, which the Divine Nature is riot fubjetl: unto; a'Sl".Pi·-m.·,, with. a ~iflintlion of Natures, but without any divifion of them by feparate fubfifiences; d.(J!Jy'x_,lvrrJJ~, without mixture or confu– fion-; d;ee).c;:w,, withoutJeparation or difiance. And '1101w~,, Jubffantially, becaufe it was of two Subfianccs or E!fences in the fame Perfon, in oppofition unto all accidental Union, as the fulnefs of the Godhead dwelt in him !Jodil, 1 • . Thefe expreffions were found out and ufed by the Antient Church, to prevent the fraud of tho,fe who corrupted the Doctrine of the Perfon of Chrifi, and (as all of that fort ever did, and yet continue fo to do) obfcured their pernicious fentiments under ambiguous expreffions. And they alfo made ufe of fundry terms which they judged fignificant of this great JV!yfiery, or the Incarnation of the Son of God. Such are ev<J>l.fX&Jut ) , lwaniation, ~J!(JVJf-l.g>n•:ut~, imbodying ' ' 8 'h . '1\. ''ll'0. ' \ <..) · fvct.v e!f!Jrllu iS, m umanatton, n o ~ u7HJTt'iU•1 omonr-'-1"' ~ -rra_p'du!::t , C > 1 1 /'_ /'_ C ( • I I < h• ? n o1 if.9 J'OfA'x, to t 1e 1ame purpo1e, n o 10 07..t-f1'..9S oF.t.luo. , zs con_, Q...9 2 verr:1tio :1 J" (/ ' I
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