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soul, he would not be a perfect man, no more than he would be
perfect God, if he had not Divine will. The Councils whose
Decrees we have already quoted against Nestorius, have defined
that there are two Natures in Christ, distinct and perfect in all
their properties, and that could not be the fact, unless each of
the two Natures had its proper natural will and natural opera
tion. A Portuguese writer, Hippolitus, in his Fragments against
Vero, from the distinction of the different operations in Christ,
argued that there was a distinction of the two Natures, because
if there was but one will and one operation in Christ, there
would be but one Nature :
"
Quae sunt inter se ejusdem opera-
tionis, et cognitionis, et omnino idem patiuntur, nullam naturse
differentiam recipiunt."
6. All these things being taken into consideration, in the
Third General Council of Constantinople, under Pope Agatho, it
was thought proper to condemn, in one Decree, (Act. 18), all
the heresies against the Incarnation condemned in the five pre
ceding General Councils. Here is the Decree, in the very words :
"
Assequti quoque sancta quinque universalia Concilia, et sanctos
atque probabiles Patres, consonanterque confiteri definientes, D.N.
Jesum Christum verum Deum nostrum, unum de sancta, et con-
substantiali, et vitas originem prsebente Trinitate, perfectum in
Deitate, et perfectum eundem in humanitate, Deum vere, et
hominem vere, eundem ex Anima rationali et corpore, consub-
stantialem Patri secundum Deitatem, et consubstantialem nobis
secunduin humanitatem, per omnia similem nobis absque peccato ;
ante secula quidem ex Patre genitum secundum Deitatem, in
ultimis diebus autem eundem propter nos et propter nostram
salutem de Spiritu Sancto, et Maria Virgine proprie, et veraciter
Dei Genitrice secundum humanitatem, unum eundemque Christum
Filium Dei unigenitum in duabus naturis inconfuse, inconverti-
biliter, inseparabiliter, indivise cognoscendum, nusquam extincta
harum naturarum differentia propter unitatem, salvataque magis
proprietate utriusque naturae, et in unam Personam, et in unam
subsistentiam concurrente, non in duas Personas partitam, vel
divisam, sed unum eundemque unigenitum Filium Dei, Verbum
D. N. Jesum Christum ; et duas naturales voluntates in eo, et
duas naturales operationes indivise, inconvertibiliter, irisepara-
bilitcr, inconfuse secundum Ss. Patrurn doctrinam, adcoque prie-