54 , godonanifefl in thefle/C In that Chrift tooke our na- rurc,thence comes The enriching ofit. Colo: s. Theennobling ofir, pittie thofè that are fo : he was mif -ufed ,and reproached, to pittie thofe that are in the like condition. You can name nothing, but he can out of his owne experience be mercifull arid pit- tifull unto. In that God, the fecond Perfon, appeared in our nature, inour weake, and tainted , dif graced nature after the Fall ; From hence comes Eft of all, the enrichingof our nature with all graces in Chrift , as it is in co/of. 2, All the Treafures of Wifedome and Knowleelge are in him, in our nature: in Chrift, there is abun- danceof riches; our nature , in him, is highly enriched. Hence comes againe the ennobling of our nature ; in that God appeared in our natute,it is much ennobled : when our nature is engraf- fed into ahigher Stock, a meane Graffor S,yera, into fo gloriousa Stock as Chrift, it is a dignirie ; that now our flefh is marryed to the fecond Perfon, it is awondrous advancement ofour nature, even above the Angelical!: Nee tooke not thenature of Angels. Ir was a .great ex- altation to our nature, that God Mould take it into the unitie of his Perfon; for the 'hu- mane nature of Chrift had nofubfiftence, but in the fecond Perfon : And this 'cloth not any way debafe the humane 'nature of Chrift, that it had no fübfiftence but in the God-head. Peter, and lames, and John, &c, had á fubfìftence, of their owne ; but Chrift had no fíabfiftence, but in the fecond Perfon': 'And yet 'I fay; it did:
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