[124] Lingard, v. 254. Phillips, ii. 256-7. Froude, vi. 477, 481.
[125] Greenwich. March 30th, 1558.
[126] "Without straining too far the license of imagination, we may believe that the disease which was destroying him was chiefly a broken heart." (Froude, vi. 526.)
[127] History of England, vol. vi. 531.
[128] Vol. ii.
[129] The skins of young calves are so named by New-England dairy-men.
[130] We could not say the human nature is divine, nor could we say the human nature is God, or vice versa; but we can only predicate the concrete terms of the concrete. The metaphysical reason is, that the foundation of this interchange of names and properties of both natures lies in their being both concrete in the subsistence of the Word. If we consider them abstractly, they are separate, and consequently cannot interchange attributes.
[131] St. John, ch. xvii., passim.
[132] The idea comprehends other conditions which it is not necessary to unfold now.
[133] "Dico Deum primaria intentione, qua voluit se creaturis communicare, voluisse mysterium Incarnationis et Christum Dominum ut esset caput et finis divinorum operum sub ipso Deo." (Suarez, De Incarnatione, Disp. v. sect. ii.)