The Preface. fectmJum#principalem plafmationem , as his vvords are ren~ dred; that is plainly the original Crt:ation of our N;?.ture, in Innocency, Uprightnefs, Purity and Righ- · teoufnefs. ) So he Jav~d in himfelf in tl;e end, what pe– ri_fhed in Adam at the beginning. (The fame Nature, in and by the fame Nature.) For if the · Lord had bee.n In~ carnate, for any other dijpojition, ( that is, Cauje, rR..!afon .oi End, ) and had brought ftefo from any other fob::: fiance, (that is, . ca:leflial or .etherial , as th~ Gnofticks imagined) he had not recorvered men., .brougl;t our Na- . ture unto an fiead in himfelf, nor could he hat"()e been {aid to be ftejh. He tl;erefore himfelf had ftejh and blood, not of any other kind ; but he took. to himfelf that 1vhich was originally created of the Father, feek.ing .that which 1vd6 loft. The tame is obferved by Auflin , lib. de .. fide, ad _Petrum 1Jiaconum. Sic igitur Chriflum 'Dei Fi- - lium ; id eft , unam ex 1rinitate ,Perfonam , 'Deum roerum erede, ut 1).irvinitatem ejus de Natura Patris na~~m effi non dubites ; & fie eurfi' rverum· hominem erede, & ejus carnem non cu:leftis, ·non aerit£, non· alteriJ.U cujufquam pu– tes ejfe n~tur.e, fed .~ ejus cujus eft Q1rmium caro; · i4 eft , quam . ipfe. Veus , homini prima de tet r4 ·_plafmarvit , & ct£teris hominibus plafmat. . So belie~J);rift the Son of God, that is one Perfon of ·the Trinitj~ · to be the true God, th,zt you doubt not but that · h~s 1Jirvinity 1Vas born· (by eterna.l Generation ) · of the Natu~e ·of the Father ; · . · - - ::"· and .. ' '
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