municationof the .one unto the other, fo as that the one fl1ould become the[ubje8: ofthe propertiesof the other. Th.e Deiiy in the abftraa: is not made the Humanity, nor on the con– trary. TheVi-vine Nature is not made temporar_)', finite, li– mited, fubjeCl: to pailion or alteration by_ this Union; nor i$ the · Human~ Nature rendred imm_enfe, infotite, omnipo– -tent. Unlefs rhts be granted, there will not be two Naturs in Cbrifi, ~ Divine and an Humane ; nor indeed either of them, but fomewbat elfe, compofed of both. '.4. Each Nature operates in him according, urtto its ej{ential Properties. The Divine Nature knows all things, · upholds aU ~hings, rules all things, afrs by its prefence every where; the Humane Nature was !Jorn, yielded Obedence, died and ;tofe again . But it is the fame Perfon,the fame Chrifr that acts all theie things, the one Nature being his, no le!Ie than the , o~her. Wheretore, . )~ ihe p~rfeff r;ompkat work of Chrifl in e·very all of his Mediatory Of/ice, in all that he did as the King,, Priefl and Prophet of the Church, in all that he did or foffered, in all that he continuetb to do {or w, in or by vertue of whether Nature foever it be done or wrought, is not to be confidered as the afr ofthis or that Nature in himalone, but it is the act and work of the whole Perfon, of him that is both God and . Man in. on~ Perfon. And this gives o.ccafion unto that va– riety of Enuntiationswhich is ufed in the Scripture concerning him, 'Which I il1all name only and conclude. · ·· r.. Some things are fpoken of the Perfon ofChrift,where– in the Enuntiation is verified with refpefr unto. one Nature only. As the Word u:as. with God, and the T¥ord was God, John 1. I. Before A!Jraham was I am, John 8. 58. Vpholding all thi'!g,s !Jy the word ofhis Power, He/;. 1. j· Thefe things are all fpok'en of the Perft>n of Chriil:; but belong unto it on account ofh.isDivineNat.ure, Sois.itfa1dofhim. To urisa . ' (hila(
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