Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	person_n	soul_n	union_n	4,231	5	9.6219	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30566	Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest by Jeremiah Burroughes.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6060; Wing B6072_v1; ESTC R207640	299,082	422

what he is it is a mighty argument to work the soul towards Christ But you wil say alas Christ is so glorious how shal we come to him his glory is enough to overwhelme us when the Angels did but appeare in some glorious manner even some of the prophets and holy men were not able to stand before them we cannot come to Christ because of his glory Therefore know in the second place That as he is so glorious in himself the lustre of heaven so he hath taken our nature upon himself he hath clothed himself with our nature and he is so united into an hypostatical union with us to be made the same person yea so to be the same person that the second person in Trinity is to be of the person that he is that the son of man should be the same person that the son of God is this is the greatest mistery in the world and it is the greatest work that ever God did abundantly greater than making heaven and earth for God to unite our natures so neere unto his son this God hath done so that Christ that calls you to come to him is not only God blessed for ever equal with the father and ful of Glory but he is your kinsman he is your neere kinsman that hath taken your flesh upon him Now had you one that were neer a kin to you that were advanced to be the Emperor of al the world and he should cal to you and say come to me would you not make towards him Jesus Christ hath your nature in heaven with him and it is in an hypostatical union united to the divine nature and the fulness of the Godhead dwels bodily in him as in Col. 2.9 Now it is he that cals you to come to him certainly there are great things in him and to be had by him as you shal see more by and by Now consider this one particular viz. who Christ is that calls to come to him and in the consideration of this there are two or three mighty strong arguments to prevail with the soul to come to Christ First in that Christ is the son of God and yet man God man so united hence the terror of the Glory of God comes to be taken away so as poor wretched flesh may be able now to converse with God being vailed with our own nature God being vailed with flesh It is true if God in his own Glory as he is in himself in the highest heavens should cal us to come to him we might be afraid least we should be overwhelmed with his glory we cannot stand before him we cannot look so much as upon the glory of the sin how shal we be able to go to the body of the glory of God Are we able to go to the body of the Sun No it would burn us up how can we be able to go to the glory of God then Now because the Lord knows that his glory is so great he hath been pleased to provide such a way to take off the terror of his greatness though we be frail flesh yet the Lord hath done that which may encourage us to come to him for he hath vailed his glory with Human Nature and therefore we may now through Christ be able to stand before and converse with the infinite glorious God This is a great mistery the greatest that God hath taken our flesh upon him and vailed his glory with our flesh that he might have his terror taken from us and we may be able to come to him here was one special end that Christ was made man that the Lord might deal with us in a more familiar way than otherwise he could Secondly In that Christ that is God-man in one person cals us to come to him hence we have this Meditation That certainly the Lord is infinitly inclined to do good unto the Children of men this is a mighty incouragement for all poor Souls to come to Christ for when thou hearest that Christ the Son of God is made man in one person by that thou may'st gather this for thy encouragement that certainly God is infinitly inclined to do good unto the Children of men God would never have wrought so strange a work as to unite our Natures into one person with his Son if he had not meant to do some infinite good unto mankind the Lord hath given a most evident demonstration of it in uniting mans Nature to his own Son As if the King should be pleased to marry his Son to one that is the nearest Kinswoman you have you would by that gather such an argument as this and all your friends would conclude surely the King doth intend much good to this family that he is strongly inclined to prefer this family So when God is pleased to marry his Son to our flesh Yea to take our Nature into a nearer union with him then the Wife is taken into the Husband we may gather this argument and conclude Surely God doth intend much good unto the Children of men and therefore come Thirdly From this consideration who Christ is God manifested in the flesh we may gather this incouragement to come to him That the Lord in uniting the divine Nature with the Human in Christ hath done already a greater work for the Children of men than the saving of their Souls comes to the saving of thy Soul is a difficult work thou thinkest thus Alas for me to come and think to be saved by Christ this is too great a thing too good to be true it is not possible that ever such a poor sinner as I am should be raised to the glory that I hear of in the word that God will raise his Saints unto thou thinkest that the Salvation of thy Soul is so great and so mighty a thing and therefore that perhaps doth somwhat discourage thee in coming but then when thou hearest what Christ is and how God hath united the divine and human Nature together in one person from thence thou mayest gather this incouragement that God hath done a greater work than to save thy Soul for so it is It is a greater work for God to unite the divine and humane Nature together in one person than to save all the Souls in the world As if Christ should say thus Oh Come to me know what I am I am the Son of the Father of the same Nature and being and I am likwise made man God the Father hath united my divine Nature to your flesh and in this he hath done a greater work than the saving of your Souls in this he hath shewed what intentions he hath for the good of mankind and in this the terror of the almighty is taken away and therefore come to me that is the first Argument come to Christ ARG. II. Secondly Come to Christ Why For Christ hath come to you do you come to him for he hath come to you that Christ might come to you he hath even come