Chapter 17 - Of the Distinction of Both Natures 

The distinction of both natures is that whereby they , with their properties and operations, remain distinct without composition, mingling, or conversion, John 10:17-18, “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.  No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.”  John 13:31-32, “Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.”  Here we may observe that there is one will in Christ as God, and another as man.  Matt. 26:39, “And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.”  This also approveth that sentence of  the Chalcedonian Creed, “We confess that one and the same Christ Jesus, both Son, Lord, only begotten, is known and preached to be in two natures without confusion, mutation, distinction, or separation.

Lastly, hereby it is manifest, that Christ, when he became that which he was not (namely man) continued to be that which he always was (very God).

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