u  "  Man,  being  of  a  corrupted  nature,  could  not  otherwise  escape  death,  unless  he
recovered  that  ancient  Grace,  and  partook  of  God,  Who  holdeth  all  things  together
in  being,  and  giveth  life,  through  the  Son,  in  The  Spirit.  He  partook,  then,  of  Flesh
and  Blood,  that  is,  He  became  Man,  being,  by  Nature  Life  and  Begotten  of  That
Which  is,  by  Nature,  Life,  that  is,  of  God,  and  being  the  Only  Begotten  Word  of
The  Father,  that  uniting  Himself  to  the  corruptible  flesh,  after  the  Manner  of  His
Own  Nature,  ineffably  and  inconceivably,  and  as  He  Himself  Alone  knoweth,  He
might  restore  it  to  His  Own  Life,  and  make  it,  through  Himself,  partaker  of  God
and  The  Father.  '  For  He  is  the  Mediator  between  God  and  man,'  being,  as  God,
United  with  God  The  Father  by  Nature  and  of  Him,  but  with  men,  again,  as  Man,
and  having  in  Himself  The  Father,  and  being  Himself  in  The  Father.  For  He  is
the  Express  Image  and  Brightness  of  His  Person,  not  separated  from  the  Essence
of  which  He  is  the  Express  Image,  and  from  which  He  proceedeth  as  His  Bright-
ness, but  being  Himself  in  It,  and  having  It  in  Himself,  and,  again,  having  us  in


244  The  Christians  Life  in  Christ.
