XII PR E F ACE. fitcs, condemned by all But that his moltfrple divine nature, and the hu- mane compofed properly offoul and body, did compofi his o-smperfon, or that it was compofd of them, they co?ftantly affirmed: TZro Ooa ltea'rér 5 árBgd- .7tou, ,¿r rd5 wags aúyreigai ¢dikes ix 71 dç xaO' 3µ", iv9ównrlirn7T m?uínç Sxbaaç ,4r' r iösoP Tóyor, lÿ dx sit arpnabra. x On xzrì tb'mr ÿa, faith Cy= ;it ofAlexandria. A fandis Pauibus adunatione ex Divinitate & Humanitate Chtiftus Dominus Hoffer compofitus prxdicatur. Pet, Diacon: lib. de Incarnat. & Grat. Chrifti ad Fulgentiuni. And the union which they intendedby'this compofation they called ezesr es of r, becau/e it was of divers natures ; and ^Pmow ,c7) ow°rmv; an union by compofition; But becaufe there neither was, nor can be, any compofitionfo called, of the divine and humanenatures, and that the Son ofGod was a perfelí perfgn bfore his incarnation,wherein he remained-what he was, andwas mad what he was not ; the expregion bath beenforfaken and avoided ; the union being better t preffed by the al: fumption ofa fubJlantial adjunhl, or human nature into pe,lnal fubfaflence with the Son ofGod, as/hallbe afterward explained. this they corfiantiy admire as the the molt ineffable dill of divine wifdom andgrace ; 'p ...pa., a TÓy/, aaxUrrrat, Ó //+`¢r/ dóap- a`¢.rai, o arapiryç ¡rTa c sal, o a;ce9- 03. apxrra,, ó 4o; Ora 4., d¿Ofuau Thera., faith Gregory Nazianzen, Orat. iz. in admiration ofthis myJtery. Hereby God communicates all things unto us from his own glorious fulnefs, the near approaches whereof we are not able to bear. So is it rllulirated by Eufcbïus, demonft. Evang. lib. iv. cap. 5, &c. ëro 5 çwriç lOtis,u,Gla 1Ìy else[ 7reáGROOñ quia q, ry ró dcró xarras- yáCCa pav asegr, g,ciil ca l °a7.c?s, ¢v ó hsppczivH, waive, 5:4;Z>;t+ qurz,,x. T. -- -ci yu, ri, iv u^-h as Tfyls, nahmç cyvá_°p,, avréç sunny euñç #2e , alr c,O oí7rmç é?i yr0 ,r,Troeai tjro, ¿ibree aP t7rt Slit yñç //Alvaç al, i ;dçaeyr asdwrav 0.0A2im ios4aí Cmv loot, i r' xwv difuntasit ¢cféç vregrrigu ñ b`la¢ °a nootuérwv. The Pyle of which words, with fcme that follow in the fame place is unto this purpofe, By the beams of the fun, light, and lie, 'L andHeat, unto the procreation, fufteratation, refrejbment andcherifhing ofall things, arecommunicated. But if the fun itfelfJbould come down unto the the earth, nothing could bear its heat andAfire; our eyeswould not be en- lightened, but darkened by itsglory, and alll things behallowed up andconfis- med by itsgreatnefs; -whereas through the beams of it every thing is enligh-r` tened and kindly refrefhed So is it with this eternal beam or brightnfs ofthe Father'sglory. We cannot bear the immediate approachof thedizine being, but through him as incarnate, are all things communicatedunto us, in a way fuïted unto our reception and comprehenfron. So is it admired by Leo, Serm ;. de nativit. Natura Humana in Creatoris focietate,n affumpta efl, non ut illehabitator, & ills diet habitaculum ; fed ut noturx alterst fic mifceretut altera, ut quamvis- alia fit (lux fufcipitui, alia vero qux fufcepit, in tantam tarnen unitatem conveniret utriufq; divetfitas, &unus idemq; fit filius, qui fe, & fecundum quod vertu eft homo, Paire dick mino- rem, & fecundumquod verus eft Deus Patti fe profitstur zqualem. Humane nature is affumed into the fociety of the Creator, not that he Jbould .be the inhabitant, and that the habitation (that is, by 'an inhabitation in the effeels of hispower andgrace, for otherwife the fulnefs of the Godhead dwelt in him bodily) but that one nature fhould be fo mingled (that is conjoyncd) with the .other; that although that be of one kind which affumeth, and that ofa- nother which is affumed ; yet the diverfity ofthem both Jhould concur infilch an unity or union, as that it is one and the fame Son, who as he was a true man, faid that he was let's than the Father,' or the Father was greaterthan he; fo as hewas trueGod, profeffeth himfelf equal unto the Father. Seealto fluguJt. de fide ad Pet. Diacon. cap, 17. Juftinianus Imperator Epift. ad Hor- mifdam, Romas Epifcop. And
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