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370 THE HISTORY OF HERESIES,
that the hypostatic union in no wise tended to render the human
nature of Christ a complete principle of the actions physically
and supernaturally performed by him. Here are his words :
"
JSTon sunt operationes a Verbo elicita? sunt operationes
totius humanitatis" (1).
He had already written (2) :
" Ad
com-
plementum autem nature Christi humane, in rationo principii
agentis, et actiones suas physice sive supernaturaliter producentis,
unio hypostatica nihil omnino contulit." In another
passage he says that all the propositions regarding Christ, in the
Scriptures, and especially in the New Testament, are directly
and primarily verified in the Man-God, or, in other words, in the
Humanity of Christ, united to the Divinity, and completed by the
Word in the unity of Person, and this, he says, is the natural
interpretation of Scripture :
"
Dico insuper, omnes et singulas
ejusdam propositiones, qua) sunt de Christo Jesu in Scripturis
sanctis, praisertim Novi Testamenti, semper et ubique verificari
directe et primo in homine Deo, sive in humanitate Christi,
Divinitati unita et Verbo, completa in imitate persona?
Atque haBC est simplex obvia, et naturalis Scripturas interpretandi
inethodus," &c. (3).
27. In fine, he deduces from this, that it was the Humanity
alone of Christ that obeyed, and prayed, and suffered that
alone was endowed with all the gifts necessary for operating
freely and meritoriously, by the Divine natural and supernatural
"
cohesion :
(concursus) Humanitas sola obedivit Patri, sola oravit,
sola passa est, sola ornata fuit donis et dotibus omnibus neces-
sariis ad agendum libere et meritorie (4). Jesu Christi oblatio,
oratio, et mediatio non sunt operationes a Verbo elicita? tamquam
a principio physico et efficiente, sed in eo sensu sunt operationes
solius humanitatis Christi in agendo, et merendo per concursum
Dei naturalem et supernaturalem complete" (5). By this Ber-
God of the infinite honour he received from Jesus
ruyer deprives
Christ, who, being God, equal to the Father, became a servant,
and sacrificed himself. He also deprives the merits of Jesus
Christ of their infinite value, as they were the operations of his
humanity alone, according to him, and not performed by the
(I) Bcrruyer, t. 8, p. 53. (4) Berruyer, t. 8, p. 20, 21, & 23.
2) Idem, p. 22.
(5) Idem, . 53.
18, 19.
3) Idem, ;>.