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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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THIS then is the foundation of the Glory of Christ in this Condescension, the Life and Soul of all heavenly Truth and Mysteries; namely, that the Son of God becoming in time to be what he was not, the Son of Man; ceased not thereby to be what he was, even the Eternal Son of God. Wherefore,
THIS then is the foundation of the Glory of Christ in this Condescention, the Life and Soul of all heavenly Truth and Mysteries; namely, that the Son of God becoming in time to be what he was not, the Son of Man; ceased not thereby to be what he was, even the Eternal Son of God. Wherefore,
2. MUCH less did this Condescension consist in the Conversion of the Divine Natura into the Humane, which was the Imagination of some of the Arians of old, and we have yet (to my own knowledge) some that follow them in the same Dotage. They say that the Word which was in ⟨p. 65⟩the Beginning, by which all things were made, being in it self an Effect of the Divine Will and Power, was in the fullness of time turned into Flesh; that is, the Substance of it was so, as the Water in the Miracle wrought by our Saviour, was turned into Wine; for by an Act of the Divine Power of Christ it ceased to be Water substantially, and was Wine only; not Water mixed with Wine: So these Men suppose a Substantial Change of the one Nature into the other, of the divine Nature into the humane; like what the Papists imagine in their Transubstantiation: So they say God was made Man, his Offence being turned into that of a Man.
2. MUCH less did this Condescention consist in the Conversion of the Divine Natura into the Humane, which was the Imagination of some of the Arians of old, and we have yet (to my own knowledg) some that follow them in the same Dotage. They say that the Word which was in ⟨p. 65⟩the Beginning, by which all things were made, being in it self an Effect of the Divine Will and Power, was in the fulness of time turned into Flesh; that is, the Substance of it was so, as the Water in the Miracle wrought by our Saviour, was turned into Wine; for by an Act of the Divine Power of Christ it ceased to be Water substantially, and was Wine only; not Water mixed with Wine: So these Men suppose a Substantial Change of the one Nature into the other, of the divine Nature into the humane; like what the Papists imagine in their Trasubstantiation: So they say God was made Man, his Effence being turned into that of a Man.