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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	distinct_a	person_n	union_n	4,563	5	10.1986	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86138	A three-fold cord to unite soules for ever unto God. 1. The mysterie of godlinesse opened. 2. The imitation of Christ proposed. 3. The crowne of afflicted saints promised. / As it was compacted by M. Richard Head, M.A. and sometimes minister of the Gospel, in his labours at Great Torrington in Devon. Published now, after his death, for publike profit.	Head, Richard, Rev.	1647 (1647)	Wing H1277B; Thomason E410_13; ESTC R204453	37,489	56

Person but one yet may it not be denyed to the Nature which is common to all Now this second Person assumed not the person of one man for then had that onely beene saved which was assumed but Wisdome to the end shee might save many built her House of that nature which is common to all nor did he assume a person alreadie made for then should he have two persons the one assuming the other assumed he tooke mans nature to his Person that is not onely the body but the soule of man that so the whole man body and soule might be saved Yea he tooke not onely the substance but the properties and qualities of our nature Wee may say of him as S. James of Elias he was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a man of like passions with us in all things like us saving in sinne But how without sinne Hee came not from Adam as wee doe and therefore had not the corruption of Adam as wee have hee tooke the substance of our nature but not by the way of ordinarie generation Hee came of man but not by man hee was the immediate fruit of the wombe but not of the loynes and so is sree from the touch and taint of our corruption hee is the holy thing Moreover hee was conceived by the holy-Ghost As Mary was the passive and materiall principle of this precious flesh so was the holy-Ghost the active and efficient both stopping the course of originall sinne in the Virgin and sanctifying the materials from the first moment of her Conception But is not Christ then the Sonne of his owne Spirit No Fathers indeed beget their Children out of their owne substance but the holy-Ghost onely framed flesh for him from whom he himselfe proceeded They both made the handmaid of the Lord whom from thence all generations shall call blessed It followeth thirdly Bredth Thirdly not onely is God made flesh but made manifest in the flesh hee pitcht his Tabernacle among us The Word saith S. John was made flesh and dwelt amongst us He came faith the Apostle on the forme of a servant he went about doing good Wee have seene him with our eyes wee have heard him with our eares felt him with our hands say his Witnesses And why all this Why made flesh And why made maifest in the flesh first That God might be satisfied in the same nature wherein he was offended secondly That Satan might be destroyed in the same nature wherein he destroyed man Heb. 2.14 See here what God can doe in a piece of Clay To worke curiously in Gold or Silver much commends the Workman but to doe the same in mouldring Earth commend him more so is it here 'T is a Si●le borrowed from the Councell of Ephesus Thus also would God restore us to our lost glory All have sinned faith the Apostle and come short of the glory of God For the restoring of this ●age wee must back to God againe But alas there is no comming neere him for he is a cousuming fire and who can dwell with everlasting burnings Besides He faith the Apostle ●wells in laght inaccassible Could wee come neere him wee cannot see him for he is invisible Behold the S●nne of God is made the Sonne of Man that wee by this might be made the Sonnes of God 2 Cor. 3.18 Gal● 4.4 5. Thus also would God advance the nature of man disgraced by sinne and made odicus unto him because wee could not come to him he comes to us in our flesh is made man just as if a King should lovingly and graciously returne to that Citie from whence not long since he turned away in great and just displeasure He faith the Apostle tooke not the seed of Angelr may mo● he in no wise tooke the s● of Angels but the seed of 〈◊〉 Quantite fecit ex his me pro te fact us est agnosce Bern. Thus also would God make our nature terrible to the Devill who overcome by Christ in our fles● d●es not be so bold with man as a fish that sees or feeles the hooke takes heed of it so c. And in all this would God have us give him the glory of his infinite Wisdome who found out that way of Life the Angels could never thinke of for ever must admire as also of his Justice and Mercie who rather then he would have finne to goe unpunished or minunpardoned would have his owne Sonne to come in the flesh and so to die for 〈◊〉 And because the God head in Christ is made flesh therefore is Christ both God and 〈◊〉 in one Persoh There are in him two distinct nat●s and these so distinct that they remaine both uncompounded and unconfounded and make both but one Person Now whereas wee say the S●e of God made the world the Soune of man by his death saved the world 〈◊〉 comra● the reason of these ●offe and cironlar speeches is the hypostaicall union of both natures in one Person howbeit wee must not ascribe that to the 〈…〉 ●ine challengeth or that to the Divine which the humane hath right unto Understand therefore not the one or the other nature but the Person in whom both natures are In him that is in the Person Coloss. 2.9 ●hvelleth the fulnesse of the God-head {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The reason of this Union He that must redeeme us must die for us for without bloud no redemption and therefore he must be man He must not onely die but overcome death and apply the merits of his death unto us and therefore he must be God And God is Christ Emannel God with us God and Man in one Person Man to die for us God to va●quish death Man to be bound God to loose the sourowes of death Man to speak from his Father to us God to speak to his Father for us if altogether like Man longe esset a Deo if altogether like God longe esset ab hominibus therefore both August He came to redeame us from Sinne Death and the Devill as God he would not as Man he could not therefore as God and Man he doth it Thus Mercie and Truth are met together Righteonsnesse and Peace hath kissed each other You have here Jacobs Ladder the top whereof reacheth up to Abrahams Bosoms whilest the foot thereof is here below at Jacobs Loynes that wee may ascend up into the New Jerusalem It being with the Sabines and the Romans as wee reade in the Roma● Historie as with the Tribe of Benjamsn where every one catcht a Wife of the daughters of Shiloh and as they were joyning battaile the Women being daughters to the one side and Wives to the other interposed themselves and by their peculiar interest on either side tooke up the Quarrell Whatsoever the Cause of the unhappie Quarrels among us may be sure I am wee have greater and dearer Arguments 10 make us Friends if wee could thinke of them But to my purpose