328 NOVATIAN THE ROMAN PRESBYTER flesh,unlessbecausewhen both aspectsare considered,both truthsare rightlybelieved? CHAPTER XIV. Abgument. — The authorprosecutesthesame argument And yet the hereticstillshrinksfrom urging that Christ is God, whom he perceivesto be proved God by so many words as wellas facts.If Christisonly man, how, when He came into thisworld, did He come unto His own, sincea man could have made no world? If Christwas onlyman, how isthe world said to have been made by Him, when the world was not by man, but man was ordainedafterthe world? If Christwas only man, how was itthat Christwas notonly of the seedof David ; but He was the Word made fleshand dweltamong us ? For althoughtheProtoplastwas not bornof seed,yetneitherwas theProtoplastformed of theconjunction of the Word and the flesh. For He is not the Word made flesh,nor dwelt in us. If Christwas only man, how does He " who cometh from heaven testifywhat He hath seen and heard,"1 when it is plainthat man cannot come from heaven,becausehe cannot be born there? If Christbe only man, how are " visiblethings and invisible,thrones,powers, and dominions,"saidtobe createdby Him and in Him ; when the heavenly powers could not have been made by man, sincethey must needs have been priorto man ? If Christ is only man, how is He present wherever He is called upon ; when itisnot the nature of man, but of God, that it can be presentin every place1 If Christ is only man, why is a man invoked in prayers as a Mediator,when the invocationof a man to affordsalvationis condemned as in effectual? If Christisonly man, why is hope restedupon Him, when hope in man is declaredto be accursed? If Christ is only man, why may not Christ be deniedwithout destructionof the soul,when itissaidthat a sin committed 1Johniii.81.