128. But
if they choose the second method, do we not infer both the equality of
the Son with the Father, and His likeness to men, together, though in
clear mutual distinction? For what is the meaning of the words,
“Even as He Himself liveth by the Father, so we also live by
Him,” but that the Son so quickeneth a man, as the Father hath in
the Son quickened human nature? Or
“flesh.”
“For as the Father raiseth the dead and quickeneth them, so also
the Son quickeneth whom He will,” S. John v. 21. as the Lord Himself hath already
said.