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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.
HE who was eternally in the Form of God, that is, was essentially so, God by Nature, equally participant of the same Divine Nature with God the Father: God over all blessed for ever; who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in Heaven and Earth: he takes on him the Nature of Man, takes it to be his own; whereby he was no less truly a Man in time, than he was truly God from Eternity: And to increase the Wonder of this Mystery, because it was necessary unto the end the designed, he so humbled himself in this Assumption of our Nature, as to make himself of no Reputation in this World; yea, unto that Degree, that he said of himself, that he was a Worm and no Man, in comparison of them who were of any Esteem.
HE who was eternally in the Form of God, that is, was essentially so, God by Nature, equally participant of the same Divine Nature with God the Father: God over all blessed for ever; who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in Heaven and Earth: he takes on him the Nature of Man, takes it to be his own; whereby he was no less truly a Man in time, than he was truly God from Eternity: And to encrease the Wonder of this Mystery, because it was necessary unto the end the designed, he so humbled himself in this Assumption of our Nature, as to make himself of no Reputation in this World; yea, unto that Degree, that he said of himself, that he was a Worm and no Man, in comparison of them who were of any Esteem.
WE speak of these things in a poor, low, broken manner. We teach them as they are revealed in the Scripture. We labour by Faith to adhere unto them as revealed. But when we come into a steady, direct View and Consideration of the thing it self, our Minds fail, our ⟨p. 71⟩Hearts tremble, and we can find no rest, but in an Holy Admiration of what we cannot comprehend. Here we are at a loss, and know that we shall be so whilst we are in this World: But all the ineffable Fruits and Benefits of this Truth are communicated unto them that do believe.