PROP. V.

Hom. IV. § 5; In Matth. vol. ш. p. 597, 789; In Luc. vol. III. p. 962; In Johan. vol. IV. p. 199, 330. Novat. de Trinit. c. xxxi. Theognost., see Athan. de Decret. Syn. Nic. 25, p. 230. Dionys. Alexand. ex Elench. et Apol. p. 90.

b. Councils and Creeds.

Antioch, A.D. 269.

Nice, A.D. 325.

c. Confessions.

Bohemia, c. iii. Wirtemberg. c. ii. 2 Helvetic, c. xi.

The SON took Man's nature in the womb of the Blessed
Virgin, of her substance.

1. The Testimony of Reason.

It was requisite that CHRIST should be man, in order that He might be subject to the Law; and in order that man might be justified by the righteousness which is performed by man.

As without shedding of blood there is no remission

of sins, so it was requisite for CHRIST to become man in order to suffer whereby to satisfy for sin, and by His death and passion to pay the punishment that was due to sin.

The soul as well as the body of man was subject to condemnation; it was, therefore, requisite that CHRIST should take upon Him as well the soul as the body, that He might save them both together.

2. Divine Testimony.

A. Old Testament.

a. Direct.

Gen. iii. 15. "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."

Gen. xxii. 18. "In thy seed [Abraham's] shall all the nations of the earth be blessed."

2 Sam. ii. 18, 19. "And David said,
Who am I, O LORD GOD? and what is
my house, that Thou hast brought me
hitherto? And this was yet a small
thing in thy sight, O LORD GOD, but
Thou hast also spoken of Thy servant's
house for a great while to come: and
this is the law of the Man, the LORD
GOD.""

1 Chron. xvii. 16, 17. "And Thou hast
regarded me according to the estate of
the Adam [or Man] from above, O LORD
GOD." (Comp. 1 Cor. xv. 45, 47.)
Ps. cxxxii. 11. "The LORD hath sworn

in truth unto David, He will not turn
from it: Of the fruit of thy body will
I set upon thy throne."

The Messiah had a human body. Ps. xvi. 9.
The Messiah had a human soul. Ps. xvi. 10.
See also Gen. iv. 1; v. 28, 29. Deut.
xviii. 18, 19. Isa. vii. 14; xi. 1; xxxii.

"Shall esteem themselves blessed.”—Michaelis.

In the Zohar the Messiah is called by

See Dr. Pye Smith, Script. Test. p. 263, with note.

the Adam on high.

3 Targum, "Behold a Man, Messiah is His name, ready that He may be revealed, and may spring forth, and may build the temple of Jah.'

a. General statement.

1 Tim. ii. 5. "The Man CHRIST JESUS." B. Particular statements.

a. Human as to His genealogy. Matt.

i. 1. Luke iii. 23, &c.

b. Son of Abraham. Matt. i. 1. Gal.

iii. 14. Heb. ii. 16.

c. Son of David.

30; xiii. 23.

Matt. i. 1. Acts ii.

Rom. i. 3.

a. Human in His organization. 1 John i. 1.
Heb. ii. 14.

He had a human body. John i. 14.
Luke xxiv. 39. 1 John iv. 3.

He had a soul. Matt. xxvi. 38. Luke

ii. 52; xxii. 42. Acts ii. 31.

Union of body and soul. Luke xxiii. 46.

b. The properties of human nature belonged

to Him.

Sorrow. John xi. 35; xii. 27. Luke xix. 41.

C. Human Testimony.

a. Fathers.

Ignatius, Epist. ad Trall. (A.D. 101),

c. ix. "

"JESUS CHRIST was of the race of David, of the Virgin Mary, was truly born, and did eat and drink." Tertullian (A.D. 198), Against the Gentiles, c. xxi. "That Ray of GOD, as had always been foretold, descending into a virgin, and in her womb becoming organized flesh, is born GODMan, or GOD and Man together."-See also Tertull. de Res. Carn. cc. ii-v. xx-xxii.

Justin Martyr (A.D. 155), 1st Apol. c. xxxviii. "Now in the times of your empire, He was a man begotten of a virgin, according to the counsel of the FATHER."

Hippolytus (A.D. 220), De Antichr. c. xlv. "John the Baptist having heard the salutation of Elizabeth, leaped in his mother's womb, rejoicing because he saw GOD the Word conceived in the womb of the Virgin."

Origen (A.D. 240), Against Celsus, book

ш. p. 135. "We say that His mortal body, and the human soul in it, partook of the GODHEAD, not only by a communication with that Word, but by as strict and entire an union as could be therewith."

Cyprian (A.D. 250), on the Vanity of Idols, p. 228. "He descends into a virgin, and puts on flesh, by the cooperation of the HOLY GHOST. GOD is united with man: He is our GOD; He is CHRIST."

Athanasius, cont. Arrian. Orat. iii.31; vol. I. p. 580. Epist. ad Epict. vii. p. 906. b. Creeds.

PROP. VI. When the SON took Man's nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, two whole and perfect natures, the GODHEAD and the Manhood, were joined together in one Person.

1. The Testimony of Reason.

His natures were not mixed or confounded together, for then
He would have been neither GOD nor man.

The union of the two natures in one Person was requisite in
order that the works of each nature might be accepted of GOD
for us, and relied on by us as the works of the whole Person.
It was requisite to His fulfilling the office of mediator between
GOD and man, that He should be GOD and man in one Person.
It was requisite that the Person who suffered should be the
same with Him that satisfied, in order that His sufferings
might be suitable for men and sufficient for GOD.

Illustration. As soul and body make one man, so GOD and man make one CHRIST.

2. Divine Testimony.

A. Old Testament.

Isa. lx. 6, 7, "For unto us a child is born, unto us a som is given and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor,