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382 THE HISTORY OF HERESIES,
God. Mary merely begot the Man, who was united in one
Person with the Word, and it is on that account that she,
the Mother of the Man, is justly called the true Mother of
God. His second reason is equally false, that the Blessed
Virgin has contributed, with her substance, to make Jesus Christ
become the Son of God, one subsisting in three Persons, for, as
we have proved, this supposition is totally false, so that, by attri
buting thus two Maternities to the Blessed Virgin,
he does
away with it altogether, for one destroys the other. Berruyer
but I omit them, not to weary the
mangles several other texts ;
reader with such folly any longer.
IV.
THE MIRACLES WROUGHT BY JESUS CHRIST WERE NOT PERFORMED BY HIS
OWN POWERS, BUT OBTAINED FROM HIS FATHER, BY HIS PRAYERS.
41. Berruyer says that Jesus Christ wrought
his miracles
in this sense alone, that he operated, with a
beseeching power,
by means of his prayers :
"
Miracula Christus efficit, non precatio
prece tamen et postulatione eo unice sensu
dicitur Christus miraculorum effector." In another place, ho
says that Christ, as the Son of God (but the Son in his sense
that is, of one God, subsisting in three Persons) had a right, by
his Divinity, that his prayers should be heard. Remark the
his prayers." Therefore, according to Berruyer,
"
expression,
our Saviour did not work miracles by his own power, but
obtained them from God by his prayers, like any other holy
man. This doctrine, however, once admitted, we should hold,
with Nestorius, that Christ was a mere human person, distinct
from the Person of the Word, who, being God, equal to the
Father, had no necessity of begging the Father to grant him
power to work miracles, since he had all power himself. This
error springs from the former capital ones we have refuted
that is, that Christ is not the Word, but is that Son of God
existing only in his imagination, his Son merely in name, made
in time by God, subsisting in three Persons, and, also, that in