The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 369

NOT A DIVINE-HUMAN NATURE

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and our fathers of the last century found Hernhutters and sharply opposed il And only because we lack knowledge and penetration have these Ethical doctrines been able to spread so rapidly here, in Germany, in Switzerland, subsequently in Eutychus

it

,

in the

and even in Scotland,

And how

such extent that

It affects it to

from that of the Reformed disagree in our views on the

entirely different

it is

Tho they

churches.

their pantheistic tendencies undetected.

does this evil affect their Christology? tell us, "

We

Scriptures, but agree in our confession of Christ," yet this is absois not the Christ of the Reformed Reformed Church according to the Scripture and the orthodox Church of all ages confesses Him, is the Son of God, eternal Partaker of the divine nature, who in time, in

lutely untrue.

Their Christ

Christ, as the

churches.

addition to the divine nature, adopted the

human

nature, uniting

He

these two natures in the unity of one person.

unites

them

in

such a way, however, that these natures continue each by itself, do not blend, and do not communicate the attributes of the one to

Hence two natures are united most intimately

the other.

unity of one person, but continuing to the end, and even

heaven, to be two natures each with

"He

is

And

manhood

again;

"

into

He

is

unity of person" (article In like "

God" (Confession

in

peculiar properties.

one not by conversion of the Godhead into

king oi the 35).

own

its

in the

now

flesh,

but by

ta-

of Athanasius, article

one not by mixture of substance, but by 36).

manner do we confess in article 19 of our Confession: that by this conception the person of the Son is insepa-

We believe

rably united and connected with the

human nature

,

so that there are

not two Sons of God, nor two persons, but two natures united in one single person; yet each 7iature retains its own distinct properties. As

then the divine nature has always remained uncreated, without beginning of days or end of life, filling heaven and earth; so also hath the human nature not lost its properties, but remained a creature,

having beginning of days, being a the properties of a real body.

And

finite nature,

tho

He

and retaining

all

hath by His Resurrec-

tion given immortality to the same, nevertheless

He

hath not

changed the reality of His human nature forasmuch as our salvation and resurrection also depend on the reality of His body. But these two natures were so closely united in one person that they were not separated even by His death." This clear confession, which the orthodox Church has always ;

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