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DOCT. V. That Christ, being both God and man, doth indeed forgive sins; but after a different manner, as he is God, and as he is man.
FRom whence flows this conse∣quence, which we confesse, that Christ, both God and man, together with the Father and the holy Ghost doth forgive sins; but this he doth after a different manner, as God, and as man. For, as God, he doth it properly, by his own authority, truly and effectually; but as man, he doth, and did it in the flesh, as a co∣operatour with the Deity, by his hu∣mane will consenting with the di∣vine, and pronouncing the words, Thy sins are forgiven thee. And the same is attested by the exposition of Leo the first in ana 1.1 Epistle to Flavia∣nus in these words, Either form (viz. of God and man) acts in commu∣nion with the other, what is proper to it; namely, the word working that which is proper to the word, and the flesh doing that which belongs to the flesh. To remit sins