Amandus Polanus on the person of Christ

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... The personal union of the two natures in Christ, is such a coupling of them as they might be one person. 1. Tim. 3.16. Coloss. 2.9. Gal. 4.4. Heb. 2.16. In this personal union, both the distinction of the two natures is to be considered, and also the effects of the union. In the personal union, the natures remain distinct, and not confused, whether we respect their essence, or the properties, or operations. Rom. 1.3.4. and 9.5. 1. Tim. 9.16. Heb. 9.14. 1. Pet. 3.18. and 4.1.

As therefore in that one person of Christ there be two natures: so there is a double mind, or understanding a double will, working, wisdom, strength, power, virtue, and so forth. The one heavenly and not created: the other human, and created. Luke. 2.52. Mar. 11.13. and 13.32. 1. John. 2.1.17. John. 2.25. and 6.64. and 5.20. Heb. 1.9. John. 1.33. and 4.6. Heb. 1.3. John. 2.19. and 10.18.

And each of the natures retaineth and keepeth his own essential properties, neither doth it communicate them, to the other nature, and that for two causes: the first is, least the natures should be mingled and confounded: the other, that there might forever remain a difference between the natures. Luke. 24.39. For he that confoundeth the properties, confoundeth the natures: and he that taketh away the properties, taketh away the natures. ...

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