Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
This Son of God, a distinct Person, but the same in substance with the Father, being the middle person betwixt the Father and the Spirit, undertakes to be Mediator betwixt God and man; by him the world was made, and by him therefore it was fitting it should be redeemed; which notwithstanding, could not have been done by him, unless he became the Son of man in time, as well as he had been the Son of God from eternity. Hereupon he took man’s nature; he that had the nature of God communicated to him, hath the nature of man assumed by him.
Not as if the Divine nature was converted into or confounded with the human, but only the human nature is assumed into the Divine, so as to become perfectly man like unto us in all things, our sinful infirmities only excepted, in time, as he had been perfectly God, like to the Father in all things, his personal properties only excepted, from eternity. And therefore man having two essential constitutive parts, a soul and a body, Christ in his assuming of the human nature was invested with both, yea, and the natural infirmities of both too; he had a soul as well as we, he had a body as well as we, and he had his soul and body united together as well as we, and so was hungry and thirsty and weary and sorrowful, as we are.
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Not as if the Divine nature was converted into or confounded with the human, but only the human nature is assumed into the Divine, so as to become perfectly man like unto us in all things, our sinful infirmities only excepted, in time, as he had been perfectly God, like to the Father in all things, his personal properties only excepted, from eternity. And therefore man having two essential constitutive parts, a soul and a body, Christ in his assuming of the human nature was invested with both, yea, and the natural infirmities of both too; he had a soul as well as we, he had a body as well as we, and he had his soul and body united together as well as we, and so was hungry and thirsty and weary and sorrowful, as we are.
For the reference, see:
William Beveridge on the Son assuming a human nature
This Son of God, a distinct Person, but the same in substance with the Father, being the middle person betwixt the Father and the Spirit, undertakes to be Mediator betwixt God and man; by him the w…
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