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  • Same as hypostatic.

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  • adjective hypostatic

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Examples

  • The seventh, to names that signify nothing, but are taken up and learned by rote from the Schools, as hypostatical, transubstantiate, consubstantiate, eternal-now, and the like canting of Schoolmen.

    Leviathan 2007

  • In this work it would have been necessary, not only to unravel all those controversies which the Christians made about the hypostatical union, but also to unfold all the niceties and subtle notions which each sect entertained concerning it.

    Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

  • We must distinguish between the excellences and perfections of Christ, which flowed from the hypostatical union of the natures, and those which flowed from the donation and anointing of the Holy Spirit.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • From the hypostatical union of the natures flowed the infinite dignity of his person, his impeccability, his infinite self-sufficiency to perform the law, and to satisfy the divine justice.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • For instance, consider the incarnation of the Son of God, and the hypostatical union therein of the divine and human natures; it is a thing above our reason and comprehension: but in the Scripture it is plainly asserted and declared that "the Word, which was God, and was with God," was "made flesh;" that "God was manifest in the flesh;" that

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Such is the hypostatical union in the person of the Son of God.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • But that Christ should admit of any thing of sin in himself, as it is absolutely inconsistent with the hypostatical union, so it would render him unmet for all other duties of his office, Heb. vii.

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • For, besides their denial of the hypostatical union of his natures, they ascribe all that unto a light within them which God will effect only by Christ as a mediator.

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • The fulness of grace was necessary unto the human nature of Christ, from its hypostatical union with the Son of God.

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • This capacity was given unto it in Christ by virtue of the hypostatical union, and no otherwise.

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

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