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Object. WHerein consisteth the union of the two Na∣tures?
Answ. In this blessed union, the humane Nature of Christ, assumed not the Divine, but the Divine assumed and took unto* 1.1 it the humane nature: for the Divine nature of Christ was a Person subsisting of it selfe from all beginnings. In the union of the blessed Trinity, the humane had no subsistence of it selfe, before it was so assumed, but as soone as it began to be, it was
assumed into the Person of the Son of God: And so that hu∣man nature consisting of body and soule, which Christ assumed, became the particular body, and soule, of the Sonne of God: And therefore the Apostle saith, that God purchased his Church with his owne blood, Act. 20. 28.
Yet in the uniting of the two Natures of Christ, we must take heed of two errors:
1. That by uniting them, we imagin not either of the two* 1.2 Natures to be absorpt, or abolished, or that there is a confusion of Natures (as in the commixion of Honey and Water, neither of them retaining the same name, or nature) or that out of these two natures, a third commeth forth compounded of them both: as in the commixion of the Eliments.
2. Neither is this Ʋnity to be too much extinuated, or lesse∣ned, as to thinke the Ʋnion to consist only in Assistance, as the Angel stood by Peter, Act. 12. or only in a certaine conjunction, (as when two divers Mettels are put together) but they are so united, as that the properties of both natures remaine, and yet there is but one person subsisting of them both: Like as the body, and soule are united together, and the fire and red hot Iron.
Of the union of the two Natures.
We are to a∣voyd two er∣rors in the uni∣ting of them.