Hence he leaps to p. 64 of my book, thence
backwards to p. 53, and then up and down, I know not how nor whither. He
begins with p. 64: Page 59 of the present volume. — “And in his
first digression concerning the excellency of Christ Jesus, to invite us to
communion with him in a conjugal relation, he tells us that Christ is
exceeding excellent and desirable in his Deity, and the glory thereof; he
is desirable and worthy our acceptation as considered in his humanity, in
his freedom from sin, fulness of grace, etc. Now, though this looks very
like a contradiction, that by the graces of his person, he meant neither
the excellencies of his divine nor human nature; yet he hath a salvo which
will deliver him both from contradiction and from nonsense, — that he doth
not consider these excellencies of his Deity or humanity as abstracted from
his office of mediator, though he might if he pleased: for he considers
those excellencies which are not peculiar to the office of mediation, but
which would have belonged unto him as God and man, whether he had been
mediator or not. But what becomes of his distinction of the graces of
Christ’s person as mediator from the graces of his person as God and man,
when there are no personal graces in Christ but what belong to his Deity or
his humanity?”