8 2 Meditatio11J and D~fcour fes and do believe that the Son of God did take our N"amre to be his c?vrt, fo as that whatever was done the1'ein, was done by him, as it is with eve, ry.other man. Every man hath Humane natme appropriated unto himfelf by an Incli'Vidu~>l Sub-· fiji ence ; whereby he becomes to be that man n ·birb heir, a11d not another; or that Nature which is common unto all, becomes in him to be pecuIi .~rly his onm, as if there were none Parraker of it bnt himfelf. ~dam in his ftrft Creation , when .:.11 Humane nature was .in him alone, was no more th;.lt individual man which he was, than C\'ery man is nm.v the man that he is, by his Incli- '0'jrfual Subfiflcnce. So the Lord Chrift taking tbJ.t nature which is common unto all, in- · to a peculiar Sub-fiftence in his own Perfon, it Lecometh his, ·and He the man Chrift -'jefus. Tbis· \Vas the mind that ?vas in him. ·:t. BY reafon of .this .Aj]umption of our nature, w!tb his doi!lg and fbffering therein, whereby he was f.;und in fa(hion aJ a man, the Gfory' ~fhis .Divine Perfon was vailed, and he made himfelf of 'lto rep;ttation. This alfo belongs unto his Con- ,]~(ce;;Jion , as the firlr General Effelt and Fruit of ir. But we have fpoken of it before. j. IT is aHo to be obferved, That in the .Af f v. r_nption of our Na.ture to be hts o1vn, He did not change it into a thing Divine and Spiritual; but preferved it entire in all its Effemial Properties and Acrings. Hence it really did and ft1ffered, was tried, tempted and forfaken as the fame natme in any otber man might do and be. That nature as it \vas peculiarly his, and therefor~ he or his l)e.rfon therein, was expofed unto all the temporary ~
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