DISSERTATION IL 231 be properly said, Godwas seen of angels, and he ascended into glory; Christ was of the seed of David after the flesh, and he was over all God blessedfor ever; God laid down his lift for us; God purchased the church with his own blood? &c. If what is true of one of his natures, be affirmed concerning his whole person, and sometimes concerning the other nature, this union of two natures in one person lays a plain foundation for it. Objection. " Supposing this strange notion, of two intelli= gent agents making one person, we shall find some things so manifestly spoken of the entire person, as will effectually pre- clude this way of escape : As particularly? when our Lord says, Mark xii. 32. thathe knew not the day ofiudgnw nt : For though it is allowed to affirm of the person, what belongs to either na- ture, yet I fear it will be accounted no better than equivocation, to deny of the person what belongs to either, for certainly if it belongs to either nature, it is true of the person which is sup- posed to beconstituted of both natures. By the same liberty of speaking might one not deny that Christ is God, meaning it of his human nature; and again, on the other hand, deny that Christ is man, meaning it of his divine nature ? The same may be said concerning those places, where Christ says, I can do nothingof myself, 8fc. " Sober Appeal." Answer, This objection is pushed home with its utmost force by a very acute writer, Mr. Emlyn, in his Humble Enquiry, &c. And I would refer the reader to those answers which that excel lent author, Mr. Boyse, has given it, in his " Vindication of the true Deity of Christ," from page 94 to page 108, edition 3d, wherein the whole dispute on this subject is contained. There are also several other authors who have vindicated this text, Mark xiii. 32. from the inferences which the Arlan writers would drawfrom it, by such considerations as these : I. Our Saviour speaks this under the character of a medi- ator, or a prophet commissioned by the Father, to reveal his will to men ; Now, since he had it not in his commission to re- veal the day of judgment, he speaks as though he knew it not, that is, it was net within the reach or extent of that knowledge which his Father commissioned him to communicate to men at that tune, though in his divine nature he had in himself the knowledge of it. By the same reasonour Lord might say, he could do nothing of himself; which he had not commissionto do as Mediator. H. That in this place Christ represents himself as the Son of man in the foregoing verses, Mark xiii. 26. and thereby he may be understood to distinguish his human nature from his di- vine, and to deny that he knew the day of judgment as he was man or the on of man. And it is certain, that our blessed Lord, in the days of his humiliation, often spoke of himself con-
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