Repetitio et Dilvcidior Explicatio Consensvs Veteris Orthodoxae Catholicaeque Christi Ecclesiae in doctrina prophetica & apostolica, de inconfusis proprietatibus naturarum Christi Domini, in vna indiuisa persona permanentibus adeoque de veritate carnis Christi ad dexteram Dei patris, in coelo sedentis & non ubique praesentis

THE FIRST PART OF THE LITTLE BOOK.

On the mystery of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the two diverse natures, remaining in one undivided person, and with what simplicity the Apostles handed these things down.

CHAPTER I.

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THE MYSTERY of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, the undivided and unconfused union of the eternal Word and human flesh, or the assumption of the created human nature by the uncreated divine nature into one person, the Apostles of Christ, like all their teachings, handed down to the Church of God as simply as possible, first by living preaching, and then indeed by writings, testifying most clearly that the eternal Word, which is the eternal Son of God, when the fullness of time had arrived, assumed or united to himself true human flesh—I say, the very true man, consisting of a rational soul and a body, with all its parts and properties—in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and indeed from the substance of the Davidic virgin, and thus that God was made man. For thus the blessed apostle John

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