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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 the true Nature of this Divine Condescension doth consist in these three Things.
BUT the true Nature of this Divine Condescention doth consist in these three Things.
1. THAT the Eternal Person of the Son of God, or the Divine Nature in the Person of the Son of God, did by an ineffable Act of his Divine Power and Love, assume our Nature into an individual Subsistence, in or with himself; that is, to be his own, even as the Divine Nature is his. This is the infallible Foundation of Faith even to them who can comprehend very little of these Divine Mysteries. They can and do believe that the Son of God did take our Nature to be his own, so as that whatever was done therein, was ⟨p. 69⟩done by him, as it is with every other Man. Every Man hath human Nature appropriated unto himself by an Individual Subsistence; whereby he becomes to be that man which he is, and not another; or that Nature which is common unto all, becomes in him to be peculiarly his own, as if there were none Partaker of it but himself. Adam in his first Creation, when all human Nature was in him alone, was no more that individual Man which he was, than every Man is now the Man that he is, by his Individual Subsistence. So the Lord Christ taking that Nature which is common unto all, into a peculiar Subsistence in his own Person, it becometh his, and He the man Christ Jesus. This was the Mind that was in him.
2. BY reason of this Assumption of our Nature, with his doing and suffering therein, whereby he was found in fashion as a Man, the Glory of his Divine Person was veiled, and he made himself of no reputation. This also belongs unto his Condescension, as the first general Effect and Fruit of it. But we have spoken of it before.