The seuenth aphorisme.

We haue said that the bodie and the soule are two existenees: which is manifestly proo∣ued in Adam whose bodie did first subsist by it selfe: then the soule being also a substance subsisting by it selfe, was ioyned vnto it. The same is also prooued, by the separation of the soule from the body: whereof each doeth re∣maine subsisting by it selfe. But seing they are the essentiall partes of a man: each of them in∣deed seuerally are existences, but yet vnper∣fect: and being ioyned, they make a perfect existence, that is, the person of man. But thus standeth not the case in Christ, touching the di∣uine and humaine natures: for his humaine nature neuer subsisted by it selfe any waies, be∣fore he took it on him, nor subsisteth yet after the taking, but onely in the word: which word was euer by it selfe a most perfect existence.