Off the Incarnatioun of Chryst Jesus.—Cap. vi.
Gal. 4.
Luc. 1, 2.
Esai.
Quhan the fulnes of tyme came, God send his Sone, his Eternall Wisdome, the substance of his awin glory, in this warld, quha tuik the nature of manheid of the substance of ane woman, to witt, of ane Virgin, and that be the operatioun of the Holie Ghost: And sa was borne the just seid of David, the angell of the greit counsall of God; the verray Messias promesit, quham we acknawledge and confesse Emanuell; verray God and verray man, twa perfyte naturis unitit and joynit in ane persona. By quhilk oure confessioun we dampne[223] the damnabill and pestilent hereseyis of Arrius, Marcion, Eutiches, Nestorius, and sick utheris, as either deny[224] the eternitie of his Godheid, either the veratie of his human nature, either confound thame, either yit devyde thame.
Quhy it behovit the Mediatour to be verray God and verray Man.—Cap. vii.
We acknawledge and confesse, that this maist wonderous conjunctioun betwix the Godheid and the Manheid in Chryst Jesus, did proceid frome the eternall and immutabill decree of God, quhence alssua oure salvatioun springis and dependis.[225]
Electioun.—Cap. viii.
Eph. 1.
Heb. 2.