prevail in the hearts of more persons than you
suppose? Belief in one God and that this God is the Lord makes the
church, for in Him is the divine trinity. The truth of this may be seen
in _Doctrine of the New Jerusalem about the Lord,_ from beginning to end.

[3] But what is thought of the Lord today? Is it not thought that He is
God and Man, God from Jehovah the Father of whom He was conceived and Man
from the Virgin Mary from whom He was born? Who thinks that God and Man
in Him, or His Divine and His Human, are one person, and are one as soul
and body are? Does anyone know this? Ask the learned in the church and
they will say that they have not known it. Yet it is part of the doctrine
of the church received throughout Christendom, as follows:

Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man; and although He is
God and Man yet there are not two, but there is one Christ. He is one
because the divine took to itself the human; indeed He is altogether one,
for He is one Person, since as soul and body make one man, so God and Man
is one Christ.

This comes from the Faith or Creed of Athanasius. The learned have not
known it because on reading this they have thought of the Lord not as God
but only as Man.

[4] When they are asked if they know from whom the Lord was conceived,
whether from God the Father or from His own Divine, they reply that He
was conceived from God the Father, for this is according to Scripture.
Are the Father and He not one then, like soul and body? Who can think
that He was conceived from two Divines, and if from His own that this was
His Father? If you ask them further what their idea of the Lord's Divine
and of His Human is, they will say that His Divine is from the essence of
the Father and His Human from the essence of His mother, and that His
Divine is with the Father. Then, when they are asked where His Human is,
they have no answer, for they separate His Divine and His Human in their
thinking and make His Divine equal to the Divine of the Father and His
Human like the human of another man, unaware that in doing this they
separate soul and body; nor do they see the flaw in this, that then a
rational man would have been born from a mother alone.

[5] As a result of the fixed idea that the Lord's humanity was like that
of another man, it has come about that a Christian can with difficulty be
led to think of a Divine Human, even when it is said that the Lord's soul
or life from conception