420 The Prieflhoodof Chrifl. VE R. S E 4. weight of finne and the Law, and havingfo done might have compaffe enough in his Sacrifice to fatisfie the In- (}ice ofGod,and to fwallow up the fames ofthe world. . Fifthly, in as much as the rertmeofthe Deitie was to bee attributed truly to the SAcrifice (elfe it could have no valuenor vertue in it) and that Sacrifice was tobe his . \OrmeLife, Soule and Body, who is the Priefl to offer it, becaufe hee was not barely a Priell but a Swale , and fo his perfon flood in ficad of ours, topay our debt, which was a debt ofbloud, and therefore hee was to offer himfelfe, He6.9.26. 1 Ret.2.24. And in as much as his perfon muff needs bee equivalent in dignity and reprefenration to the perfons ofall thole for whom hee mediated , and whowere for his fake onely delivered from buffering: for thefe caufes neceffary it was that God and man fhould make butaneChrifi , in theunityof the fame infinite perfon, whofc natures they both were, that Which buffered, and thatwhich fanelified. Thehu- mane nature was not to bee left to fubfill in and for it felfe , but was to have dependence, and fupportance in the perfon of the Sonne and a kinde of inexifience in him, as the graft ofan apple may have in the flock ofa plumb. Fromwhence arifeth ; fiat, the Communication ofproperties betweenc the natures ; when by reafonof 1 the unity ofthe perfon, wee attribute that to one nature which is common to the other, not by contagionor mini_ fufion, but by Communion in one end and in one perfon; as when the Scriptures attribute Humane properties to the Divine Nature. The Lord of Life wasflaine, A11.3.15. Godprirchafed the Church with hid owneblend , .411.2o. 28 . They crucified the Lord of Glory , 2 Cor.2.8. Or Divine to the Humane Nature. As the Sonne of Man camedownefilms heaven,loh.3 a 3.and the SomeofMan (hall arcend where bee wad before 14.6.62. Or when bothnatures worke with theirfeverall concurrence unto the fame worke,as to wakeon the waters,to ripest ofthe grave,
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