tlypoffatical Union of !Jis Natures declared. 3o1 two difiincr Per(ons of the Son of God, and the Son of l\1an, as thefe now do,and briefly detetl:·the vanity of it. For the whole of it confified in the· conceffton of fundry things that · were true in particular, , making ufe of the pretence ot them, unto the denial ofthat wherein alone the true Union of the Perfon of Chri£1: did confi£1:. . Nejlorius allowed the prefence of the Son of God, vVith the man Chriil:Jefus, toconfiil:inf-ve things . ·. 1. He faid he was fo prefent with him, ~ 7rcte).CJ_a.(J'tl'; 6r by In habt.tation, as a man dwells in an Houfe ora Sh1p to . rule it. He dwelt in him as his Temple. So he dwells in all that believe, but in him in a more efpecial manner. An~ · this is true with refpefr unto thatful!nejs of the Jpirit where– by God was with him ·and in him ; as he is with and in all Believers, according unto the meafures wherein they' are made partakers of him. But this anfwers not that Divine Teil:imony; that in him dwelt all the fulnefs of the Go-dhead bodi!J', Col. 2. 9· Thefuln~(s of the Godhead is the entire Di– vine Nature. This Nature is coniidered ·in the Perfon of the Soil, or eternal ·word, · for it was the word that ·was made f1efl1. . And this could no otherwife dwell in him bodily, real– ly, fubflantial(y, butj n the Aifumption of that Nature to te his own. And no fenfe can be given unto this Aifertion to preferve it from Bla[phemy; that the fulnefs of the Godhead awetleth in any of the Saints bodily. · · ' · 2. He allowed an efpecial Prefen~e, ~ ~dr; t v, as feme call it, that is, by fuch an Vnion of Affdlions as is betw~en inti– mate friends. The foul of God re!l:ed alwaies in that man; in him wa3 he well ph:afed, and he was wholly given llp in his AffeElions unto God, This affo is true; but t11ere is that' which is no lefs true that renders it ufelefs unto the pre– tenfions ofNejloriur. For he allowed the Divine Perfon of the Son of God. But whatever is fpoken of this nature conFl r cerninjS · ,·
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