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Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…
Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decays : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decayes : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...
London: printed by J.A. for William Marshall, 1691
Chapter 4 › First in his Condescension.Chapter 4 › First in his Condescention.
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BUT that we may the better behold the Glory of Christ herein, we may briefly consider the Especial Nature of this Condescension, and wherein it doth consist.
BUT that we may the better behold the Glory of Christ herein, we may briefly consider the Especial Nature of this Condescention, and wherein it doth consist.
BUT whereas not only the Denial, but Misapprehensions hereof have pestered the Church of God in all Ages, we must in the first place reject them, and then declare the Truth.
1. THIS Condescension of the Son of God did not consist in a laying aside, or parting with, or separation from the Divine Nature, so as that he should cease to be God, by being Man. The Foundation of it lay in this, that he was in the form of God, and counted it not robbery to be equal with God, Phil. 2. v. 6. That is, being really and essentially God in his Divine Nature, he professed himself therein to be equal with God or the Person of the Father. He was in the Form of God, that is, he was God, participant of the Divine Nature, for God hath no Form but that of his Essence and Being; and hence he was equal with God, in Authority, Dignity and Power. Because he was in the Form of God, he must be equal with God, for there is Order in the Divine Persons, but no Inequality in the Divine Being. So the Jews understood him, that when ⟨p. 64⟩he said, God was his Father, he made himself equal with God. For in his so saying, he ascribed unto himself equal Power with the Father, as unto all Divine Operations, My Father, saith he, worketh hitherto, and I work,