The true Christ owned as he is, true God and perfect man containing an answer to a late pamphlet having this title The Quakers creed concerning the man Christ Jesus &c. writ by a nameless author : which pamphlet containeth many gross lies and wilful perversions beside some other great mistakes occasioned by the author his ignorance and blindness / by George Keith.

Some Testimonies out of Hilarius, con∣cerning the Manhood of Christ, both as touching the Soul and Body: Who al∣though he doth expresly affirm, that Christ hath the true and whole nature, both of God and Man, yet he no less expresly saith as followeth in his own words lib. 10. de Trinitate.

SUum, rursum panem esse dixit, ut per hoc quod descendens de caelis, panis est, non ex humana conceptione origo esse corporis existi∣maretur, dum caeleste esse corpus ostenditur—Et arguere nos solent Heretici quod Christum dicamus natum non nostri corporis atquae animae hominem.—Sed ut per se sibi sumpsit ex Vir∣gine corpus, ita ex se sibi animam sumpsit, qua

utique nunquam ab homine gignentium, origi∣nibus prebetur. Si enim conceptum carnis nisi ex Deo Virgo non habuit, longe magis necesse est, anima corporis nisi ex Deo aliunde non fue∣rit—at vero si Dominici corporis sola ista natura sit, ut sua virtute sua anima feratur in humidis & insistat in liquidis, et extructa transcurrat, quid per naturam humani corporis concepta ex Spiritu S. caro Iudicatur? And concerning the Soul of Christ, he further saith. Naturae hujus potestatem, Iam non dico metus, sed nec infernae sedis regio est concludens, quae descendens ad inferos, a paradiso non desit, sic ut & hominis filius loquens in terris, maneat & in Caelo.—Non habet hunc metus corpo∣ralis penetrantem quidem inferos, sed ubique Naturae suae virtute distentum & naturam hanc mundi Dominam, ac libertate Spiritualis vir∣tutis immensam, non sibi terrore mortis, Gehen∣nae chaos vindicat, qua Paradisi deliciae carere non possunt.

In English thus.

Again, he said, that he was bread; that by this, that he is bread, coming down from Heaven, the Original of his Body may not be esteemed to be of Humane Conception, while it is shown to be a Heavenly Body—And the Hereticks use to accuse us, because we say, that Christ was born a man, having a Soul and Body not of our kind: but as by himself, he took

to himself a Body of the Virgin; so of him∣self, he took to himself, a Soul which is never to be acknowledged to have the same Origi∣nals of them begotten of Man: for if the Virgin had the Conception of the flesh, not of any other but God, it is much more needfull, that the Soul was not of any but of God.—But indeed, if that be the onely Nature of the Lords body, that by its own vertue, by its Soul it is carried upon the waters, and stan∣deth upon the Floods, and being struck at, can pass through; why is the Flesh conceived of the Holy Ghost, judged by the Nature of an Hu∣mane Body?

And concerning the Soul of Christ, he further saith.

The power of this Nature, now I say, not only fear, but the region of the infer∣nal seat doth not contain; which descending into the Hells, is not absent from Paradice; so that being the Son of Man speaking in the earth, he doth remain in the Heavens. Bodily fear doth not take hold of him; that doth in∣deed penetrate the hells, but is everywhere ex∣tended, in the vertue of his own Nature; and the pit of Hell cannot claim to it self by the Terrour of death, this Nature; that is, the La∣dy of the world, & immense, or unmeasurable in the liberty of Spiritual vertue; Which the delights of Paradice cannot want,