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Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
Meditations and discourses on the glory of Christ, in his person, office, and grace with the differences between faith and sight applied unto the use of them that believe / by the late Reverend John Owen, D.D.
London: printed by B.A., 1691
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Chapter 4: The Glory of Christ in his Susception of the Office of a Mediator. First in his Condesc…
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.
So the Apostle expresseth it, Phil. 2. 5, 6, 7, 8. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but made himself of no reputation, and took on himself the form of a Servant, and was made in the likeness of Men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross.
IT was the Mind that was in Jesus Christ, which is proposed unto our Consideration and Imitation. What he was inclined and disposed unto from himself and his own mind alone. And that in general which is ascribed unto him is [Greek or Hebrew], Exinanition or Self-emptiness; he emptied himself. This the Ancient Church called his [Greek or Hebrew], as we do his Condescension, an Act of which kind in God is called the humbling of himself, Psal. 113. 6.
IT was the Mind that was in Jesus Christ, which is proposed unto our Consideration and Imitation. What he was enclined and disposed unto from himself and his own mind alone. And that in general which is ascribed unto him is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Exinanition or Self-emptiness; he emptied himself. This the Ancient Church called his 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, as we do his Condescention, an Act of which kind in God is called the humbling of himself, Psal. 113. 6.
WHEREFORE the Susception of our Nature for the Discharge of the Office of Mediation therein, was an Infinite