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…

BUT as we said before; although the Lord Christ himself in his Person was made to be what he was not before, in that our Nature hereby was made to be his, yet his Divine ⟨p. 66⟩Nature was not so: There is in it neither variableness nor shadow of turning. It abode the same in him in all its Essential Properties, Actings and Blessedness, as it was from Eternity. It neither did, acted, nor suffered any thing, but what is proper unto the Divine Being: The Lord Christ did and suffered many things in Life and Death, in his own Person, by his Human Nature, wherein the Divine neither did, nor suffered any thing at all; although in the doing of them, his Person be denominated from the Nature; so God purchased his Church with his own Blood, Act. 20. 28.

BUT as we said before; altho the Lord Christ himself in his Person was made to be what he was not before, in that our Nature hereby was made to be his, yet his Divine ⟨p. 66⟩Nature was not so: There is in it neither variableness nor shadow of turning. It abode the same in him in all its Essential Properties, Actings and Blessedness, as it was from Eternity. It neither did, acted, nor suffered any thing, but what is proper unto the Divine Being: The Lord Christ did and suffered many things in Life and Death, in his own Person, by his Human Nature, wherein the Divine neither did, nor suffered any thing at all; although in the doing of them, his Person be denominated from the Nature; so God purchased his Church with his own Blood, Act. 20. 28.

4. IT may then be said, what did the Lord Christ in this Condescension, with respect unto his Divine Nature? The Apostle tells us, that he humbled himself, and made himself of no reputation,