The whole body of Christian religion, by Hieron. Zanchius. Translated out of Latine by D. Ralph Winterton.

DOCT. VII. The confirmation of the foregoing opi∣nion together with the exposition of that place of Athanasius.

WE confesse indeed, That, As the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ: that is, That there is but one Person, al∣though there be two natures in him. But not thus, as if of the two na∣tures, as of the parts thereof, (to speake properly) were constituted the Person of Christ; as to the consti∣tuting of the person of man, the bo∣dy as well as the soul doth concurre necessarily, as an essentiall part: For as much as the Person of Christ was existent, and most complete and per∣fect before the manifestation thereof in the flesh; but the person of man, suppose Adam, was not, before the conjunction of the soul and body: and again, for as much as neither the soul of man assumed the body, nor the body, the soul; as the Son of God assumed unto himself the seed

of Abraham into the unitie of the fame person: and further, for as much as the body and soul are two sub∣stances, as it appeareth in the creation of Adam; but the humane nature of Christ never subsisted by it self alone, but onely in the Person of the Son of God. From whence it ap∣peareth, how unjustly some abuse the godly saying of Athanasius, to prove their own dreams and phansies. For it is altogether necessarie that he which manifested himself (that is, the Person of the Son of God) should be different from the flesh in which he manifested himself; and that not onely before, but also after the resur∣rection, and his session at the right hand of the Father: which (as S^t. Au∣gustine saith) brought glorie indeed into the flesh, but took not away the nature thereof.