tual and bodily nature of man; as the prophet David saith:

"Thou wilt not leave His soul in hell, neither suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.”—Psalm xvi. 10.

"Neither His flesh did see corruption."—Acts ii. 31. Also xiii. 37.

"Forasmuch as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also partook of the same.”—Heb. ii. 14.

"A Spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have."-Luke xxiv. 39.

Consequently,

SECTION XXIII.

EQUAL to the Father as touching His GODHEAD; and INFERIOR to the Father, as touching His MANHOOD.

In this sense we are to understand the words of Christ.

"I and

my

Father are One."-John x. 30. "The Father is greater than I."—John xiv. 28. "The Jews therefore sought the more to kill Him, because He said that God was His Father; making Himself equal with God."-John v. 18.

"The two last articles were to guard the Church from the Arians, who deny the Divine Perfection, or Divinity of Christ; or against the Apollinarians, who assert that He had a human body only, without a rational soul; imagining the Logos, or Word, to have supplied the place of the rational soul."

The depravity of man can alone account for these awful proofs, that "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."-Jer. xvii. 9.

SECTION XXIV.

Who, although he be God and man ; yet he is not Two, but ONE CHRIST.

BEING "One God and Mediator between God and man; the Man Christ Jesus."-1 Tim. ii. 5.

"God hath made the same Jesus both Lord and Christ."-Acts ii. 36.

"For One is your Master, even Christ."- Matt. xxiii. 10.

"Much more the grace of God, and the gift of grace, which is by One Man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many."-Rom. v. 15, 17.

"Because the Christian Church asserted two natures in Christ, whereby he is both perfect God and perfect man." The Apollinarians, to serve their own views, "pretended that this was making two Christs: a Divine Christ, as to one nature, and a human Christ, in the other nature; which was a vain thought, since both the natures joined in the One God-man,” or Emmanuel,' "make still but One Christ, both God and Man," as the Scriptures have manifested above. -Water land. See Sections xx. xxi.

SECTION XXV.

ONE, not by conversion of the Godhead into Flesh, but by taking of the Manhood into God.

"Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men."-Phil. ii. 6, 7. See Sect. 21.

Christ, as this Scripture declares, tools upon Him our flesh: "He assumed hu

man nature; took man into an union with God; and thus He was one Christ; and not by confounding the two natures in one, and subjecting the Godhead to change," as the Apollinarians falsely say.

SECTION. XXVI.

One altogether; not by Confusion of Substance, but by Unity of Persons. "Christ, then, is One Altogether; entirely one, though His two natures remain distinct; not by confounding or mingling two natures or substances into one nature or substance, as the Apollinarians also pretend, but by uniting them Both in One Person."

"To us there is but One God the Father, and One Lord Jesus Christ."-1 Cor. viii. 6. See Heb. i. 3. and Sect. xxii.

Which Scripture presents to us a Name expressive of both the Divine and human character altogether; which is beautifully illustrated also by the following words:

For as the reasonable soUL and FLESH,

is ONE MAN, so GOD and MAN is ONE CHRIST.

That is to say, there are two very distinct, and very different substances in man- -a body and a soul; one material, the other immaterial; one mortal, the other immortal: and both these substances, nevertheless, make up but one man; not by confounding or mingling those two different substances, (for they are entirely distinct and different, and will ever remain so) but by uniting them in One Person. Even so, may the two distinct natures, Divine and human, in Christ make One Person."-Waterland.

The author of the Creed having thus finished his explication of the great doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation, proceeds to the other doctrines of the Christian Faith.