_4thly_, His retaining his human nature for ever, seems necessary, as it redounds to the glory of God: it is an eternal monument of his love to mankind, and an external means to draw forth their love to him, who procured those mansions of glory, which they shall for ever be possessed of, by what he did and suffered for them therein. Footnote 113: _See Page 379._ Vol. I. Footnote 114: _See Quest._ xliv. Footnote 115: _See Vol. I. Page 243._ Footnote 116: _See Quest._ ix, x, xi. Footnote 117: _Vide the note, Vol. I. Page 279._ Footnote 118: _For this reason, the Sabellians are often called, by ancient writers, Patripassians._ Footnote 119: _See the same scriptures, and others to the like purpose, before cited, for the proof of Christ’s proper deity, under Quest._ ix. x. xi. _Vol. I. Page 302, to 319, and also what has been said concerning his Sonship, as implying him to be God-man Mediator. Vol. I. Page 274, 279, &c._ Footnote 120: _Nestorius was Bishop of Constantinople, in the reign of Theodosius, the younger, A. D. 428. who very warmly maintained, that the Virgin Mary was not the mother of that Person that was God, but of a distinct human Person, called Christ, which was censured and condemned by the council at Ephesus, A. D. 431._ Footnote 121: _These are called Eutychians, from Eutyches, an abbot of Constantinople, who, when he had gained a great deal of reputation, in disputing against Nestorius, in the council at Ephesus, a few years after, viz. A. D. 448. propagated his opinion, which was condemned, as heretical, in the council at Chalcedon, A. D. 451._ Footnote 122: _This absurd opinion, subversive of Christianity, was propagated by several among the Gnosticks, in the second century, who, for this reason, were called Docetæ._ Footnote 123: αφαντος εγενετο. Footnote 124: _See Page 112 ante._ Footnote 125: _So the Hebrew word ought to be rendered, rather than_ therefore; _for so it is understood in other scriptures, particularly in Jer._ xxx. _16._ Footnote 126: _This is a just distinction relating to signs mentioned in scripture; in which, sometimes a sign did not take place till the thing signified, or brought to remembrance thereby, had been accomplished. See Exod._ iii. _12. 1 Sam._ ii. _34. Isa._ xxxvii. _30. Jer._ xliv. _29, 30. as Bishop Kidder well observes. See Demonstrat. of the Messias, Part II. page 105, in Fol._ Footnote 127: