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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
BUT this no way belongs unto the Condescension of Christ. We may call it Ichabod, it hath no Glory in it. It destroys both his Natures, and leaves him a Person in whom we are not concerned. For according unto this Imagination, that Divine Nature wherein he was in the Form of God, did in its own Form cease to be, yea, was utterly destroyed, as being substantially changed into the Nature of Man; as the Water did cease to be, when it was turned into Wine; and that humane Nature which was made thereof, hath no Alliance or Kindred unto us, or our Nature, seeing it was not made of a Woman, but of the Substance of the Word.
BUT this no way belongs unto the Condescention of Christ. We may call it Ichabod, it hath no Glory in it. It destroys both his Natures, and leaves him a Person in whom we are not concerned. For according unto this Imagination, that Divine Nature wherein he was in the Form of God, did in its own Form cease to be, yea, was utterly destroyed, as being substantially changed into the Nature of Man; as the Water did cease to be, when it was turned into Wine; and that humane Nature which was made thereof, hath no Alliance or Kindred unto us, or our Nature, seeing it was not made of a Woman, but of the Substance of the Word.
3. THERE was not in this Condescension, the least Change or Alteration in the Divine Nature. Eutiches and those that followed him of old, conceived that the two Natures of Christ, the Divine and Humane were mixed and compounded as it were into one: And this could not be without an Alteration in the divine Nature, for it would be made to be essentially what it was not; for one Nature hath but one and the same Essence.
3. THERE was not in this Condescention, the least Change or Alteration in the Divine Nature. Eutiches and those that followed him of old, conceived that the two Natures of Christ, the Divine and Humane were mixed and compounded as it were into one: And this could not be without an Alteration in the divine Nature, for it would be made to be essentially what it was not; for one Nature hath but one and the same Essence.