Expressed immediately vs mediate by consequence — two natures
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Beside the last distinction stands another close to it.One thing is to contain a teaching expressly and immediately; another is to contain it mediately, by consequence.
On our view Scripture does not hold every dogma of faith in that immediate, express form.Still nothing that necessarily belongs to faith and religion fails to follow from Scripture by a good, open consequence.
Scripture never says in so many words that Christ has two natures, or two wills in him.Both still belong to the truth of faith, because they follow openly from what Scripture teaches in many places — that Christ is true God and true man.
Latin
IX. Priori autem isti distinctioni affinis est altera. Nam aliud est continere expresse & immediate, aliud mediate & per consequentiam. Et Scriptura quidem, ex nostrorum mente, omnia fidei dogmata non continet immediate & expresse. Sed nihil est ad fidem & religionem necessario pertinens, quod ex Scriptura deduci non possit per bonam & apertam consequentiam. Sic non dicit expresse Scriptura, Christum duas naturas habere, & in eo duas esse voluntates. Attamen ad fidei veritatem utrumque pertinet: quoniam aperte ex eo consequitur, quod Scriptura docet pluribus in locis, nempe, Christum verum Deum, & verum hominem esse.