i 6o vi Declarationofthe Gloraour My STE RY (2. By the Holy Spirit he filled that naturewith an all-fulnefs of ha. bitual grace, which I have at large explained elfewere. (3. In all the ails of his office, by the divine nature he commun, cared worth and dignity unto what was a&ed in and by the humane nature. For that which fome have for a longfeafon troubled the church withal, about fuck a real communication of the properties of the divine nature unto the humane, which liouldneither be a transfirfion of them into it, fa as to render it the fubje& of them 3 nor yet con(fift in a reciprocal denomi, nation from their mutual in-being in the fame fubjed, it is that which neither themfelves do, nor can any other well underftand. 2.) Wherefore concerning the communion of the natures in this pa- rotid]. union, three things are to be obferved, which the fcripture, reafon, and the antient church do all concur in. (t. Each nature doth preferve its own natural, elfential properties eìt- tirely unto and in it felf; without mixture, without compolition or con- fufion, without fuch a real communication of the one unto the other, fo as that the one fhould become the fubje& of the properties of the other. The deity in the abfrad is not made the humanity, not on the contray. The divine nature is not made temporary, finite, limited, fubje& to paf- lion or alteration by this union; nor is the humane nature rendered im- menfe, infinite, omnipotent. Untefs this be granted, there will not be two natures in Christ, a divine and anhumane; nor indeed either of them, but fornewhatelfe, compofed of both. (2. Each nature operates in him according unto its effential properties. Thedivine nature knows all things, upholds all things, rules all things, ads by itsprefence every where; the humane nature was born, yielded obe- dience, died and rofe again. But it is the faine perfon, the fame Christ that ads all thefe things, the one nature being his, no leffe than , the other. Wherefore, (3. The perfect compleat work of Christ in every a& ofhis mediatory office, in all that he did as the King; Pried and Prophet ofthe church; in all that he did or fuffered, in all that he continuetia todo for us, in or by virtue of whether nature foever it. be done or wrought, is not to be conldered as the ad of this or that nature in him alone, but it is the a& and the work of the whole perfon, of him that is both God and man- ìn one perfon. And this gives occafion, (q.) Unto that variety of enuntiations which is ufed in the fcripturç Concerning him, which I (hall name only and conclude, u.) Some things are fpoken of the perfon ofChrìft, wherein the enun. tiation is verified with refpe& unto one nature only. As the word was with God, and the word was God, John i. I. Before Abrahamwas ! am, Johnviii. 58. Upholding allthiope by theword ofhis power, Heb. i. 3. Thefe things are all fpoken of the perfon of Chrift; but belong unto it on ac- count of his divine nature. So it is faid of him: To us a child is born, to usa Son is given, Ifa. ix. 6. Aman of forraws and acquainted with grief, Ifal. fill. 3. They are fpoken ofthe perfonofChrifl, but are verified tohumane natureonly, and the perfon on the account thereof. 2.) Sometimesthat is fpokenof the perfon, which belongs not diftindiy and originally untoeither nature, but dotla belong, unto ham on the ac- count of their union in him, whirls are the molt dire& enuntiations.con- cerning the perfon of Christ. So is he Paid to be the bead, the King, priefl and prophet of the church; all which offices he bears and performs the ad of them, not on the fingular account of this or that nature, but of the l¡ypoffatical union of them both. 3.) Sometimes
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