Bi wel Chriftianity as unto the Myftery, the Glorj;, the Truth,the Effiacy of it ; let a i·efined Hea-the ni(m be eftablifhed in its Room. But this is rhe R~ck on which the Church is built; agait1fi: whicli the Gates of Hell !hall not prevail. .· 4· THIS Condefcention of Chrifr was not by ~ Phantafm or an Appeatance only. One of the firfi: Herefies that pefi:ered the Church immediate· ly afret the Days of the Apoftles, was this, that ail thanvas done or fltffered by Chrift as a Man,_ were not the ACts, Doings or Sufferings of or~e that was truly and really? man, but an ol.uvvard i·e_prefent~tion of things, fike the appearance of.Angels in the jhape of men, eating and d6nking tlndeE~, the Old Tefi:ament ; and . fitita·bly hereunto fome in our days have fpoken ; namely, thin there \Vas only an Appearance of Chrift in th<? man Jefui, at Jerufalem, in whom· he fhffered no . n1ot~ than in other Believers. But the Ancient Chri- {l:ians told thofe men the Triuh ; namely, that as they i:Jad feigned tmto themfel'Ves an imaginary Chrift, fo they Jh'ould ha'Ve an imaginary Sal-batiort only. . _ ... But the true Nature of this Divine Condefcen~ · tion doth confift in thefe Three Things. 1. THAT the Ete~n'al Po/on of ihe Sor; ~f Gcd:} or the Di'Vine Nature in the Perfo.n of the Son~ clid bJ'_ an ineffable a[~ if his Di-vine Pv;.ver and Lpve, af fume our Nature into mz indi'Vidual fubjifle71Ce Jn or with him{elf; that is, f () be his mvn, even fi.s the Dirvine Natnre is his. This is the infallible foundati-, on of Faith even to them who can comprehend' ve·ry ktle of ti1ife Diyine Iv1yftt>ii es. Tbey can. G · ~:n~J
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