fenders of which dogma, the Schoolmen, the excuse of concomi- tancy was convenient. The restoration of the blood was not universally maintained even in the age of Gerson, as is evident from his sermons on the day of the Lord's circumcision, and from the Josephini, dist. 8. After the Reformation many ad mitted and propagated that opinion without any controversy, and therefore, as it happens usually, without any doubt. But the grounds on which they rest, evince that the blood of the Lord remained free from corruption, and that His remains (relics), ac companied with miracles, do not continue in the earth ; both of which we heartily acknowledge ; but by these same arguments it is not positively denned what is the present condition of that precious blood. Sec. I. Gerhard's dispp., p. 789, 1426, seq.; J. Meisneri. exam, catech. Pal., p. 596, etc. It will be thy duty, Christian reader, to compare together the several opinions on this subject, and decide on them according to the rule of sacred Scripture.
§ 8. The personal union and the state of the shed blood well agree (are quite compatible with one another).
These two are not at variance with each other during the three days of His death : and much less is there any opposition ever afterwards. This whole consideration admits nothing Nestorian, nothing Eutychian.
§ 9. Tlie resurrection and glorious life of Jesus Christ does not set aside the state of the shed blood.
If any one were to suppose that a small quantity of blood re mained in the body of the Saviour even after His side was pierced, the restoration of the blood shed to the body might seem on that account the less necessary to the natural rea son. But the whole blood was indeed shed, and yet it was not again restored ; for the natural or animal life consists in the blood and its circulation, and is supported by bread ; but the word of God without bread feeds the bodies of the saints. See concerning Moses, Ex. xxiv. 18, xxxiv. 28; also concerning Elias, 1 Kings xix. 8 ; but chiefly concerning Jesus Christ, Matt. iv. 2, 4. For His whole mode of living is known to have exceeded in purity that of all men even from the suitableness of his raiment, John xix. 23, note. But if the power of God effects that on the earth, how much more is that done and will be done