Instruction concerning penance and holy communion the second part fo the instruction of youth, containing the means how we may return to God by penance, and remain in his grace by the good and frequent use of the sacraments. By Charles Gobinet, Doctor of Divinity, of the house and Society of Sorbon, principal of the college of Plessis-Sorbon.

Quest. III. This Incarnation in what doth it consist? Who was conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary.

IT consists in the strict and personal union of the Eternall word with human nature: that is, with a mortall body and an immortall Soul, such as we have; from which union there results a compound, whom we call Jesus Christ, true God, and at the same time true man.

Whence it plainly follows that in Jesus Christ there are two Natures, and one only Person, viz. the one divine, the other humane nature, both united in one & the same Person of the Son of God, or the eternal word: whereas on the contrary in the divinity there is but one Nature, & three Persons.

By this Union the Divinity was neither chan∣ged into the Humanity, nor the Humanity into the Divinity of our Lord; for that is impossible: But both natures enjoying either of them their own perfections, were strictly united in the per∣son of the Son of God. So that continuing what he was, that is God, he became what he was not, viz.

Man, as St. Leo, Sermone, de Nativ. Dom. expresses himself, Manens quod erat, assumpserat quod non erat.