M built on the Perfon of C!Jrifl. 17 r.Div.ine Nature. Some affirmed that his Body was not ani– mated as ours are, by a rational foul, but was immediately afred by the Power of the Divine Being, which was unto it in the room of a living foul. Some that his Body was of an tethe.rial nature, and was at length turned into the Sun; with many fuch diabolical Delufions.. And there yet want not Attempts in thefe daies of various forts t9 defl:roy the verity of his Humane Nature; and I know not what ·fome late Phantaflicai Opinions about the nature of glorified Bodies may tend unto. The defign of Satan in all thefe pernicious Imaginations, is to break tile cognation and alliance between Chrifi: in his Humane Nature and the Church, whereon the falvation of it cloth abfolutely depend. . Thirdly, He raifed a vehement oppofition againil the Hj– poflaticalVnion, _or the Union of thefe two Natures in one Perfon. This he did in the Nrflorian Herejie, which greatly, and for a long time peilerd . the Church. The Authors and Promoters of this Opinion; granted the Lord Chriil to have a l)ivine Nature,to be tbe Son of the Living God. They alfo acknowledged the'--Truth of his Humane Nature, that he was truly a man even as we are. But the Perfonal Vnionbetween thefe two Natures they denied. An Union they &id there was between them, butfuch asconfiiled only in Lo'Ve, Power. and Care. .God did as they imagined eminently and power· . fully manifeil himfelf in the Man Chrifi: J efus, had him in an efpecial regard and love, and did more aB: in him then in any other. But that the Son of God affumed our Nature in– toPerfonal Su!Jjijlence with himfelf, whereby whole Chriil: wa~ one Perfon, and all his Me_diatory AB:s were the AB:s of *at one Perfon, of him who was both God and Man; this tqey would not acknowledge. And this pernicious Imagi– natwn, though it feem to make great conceilions of Truth, doth no lefs effe.frually evert the Foundation of the Church D then
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