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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…
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BEING in this state, it is said that he took on him the form of a servant, and was found in fashion as a Man, ver. 7. This is his Condescension. It is not said, that he ceased to be in the Form of God; but continuing so to be, he took on him the form of a Servant in our Nature: He became what he was not, but he ceased not to be what he was: so he restifieth of himself, Joh. 3. 13. No man hath ascended up into heaven, but he that came down from heaven, the Son of man which is in heaven. Although he was then on Earth as the Son of Man; yet he ceased not to be God thereby; in his Divine Nature he was then also in Heaven.
BEING in this state, it is said that he took on him the form of a servant, and was found in fashion as a Man, ver. 7. This is his Condescention. It is not said, that he ceased to be in the Form of God; but continuing so to be, he took on him the form of a Servant in our Nature: He became what he was not, but he ceased not to be what he was: so he restifieth of himself, Joh. 3. 13. No man hath ascended up into heaven, but he that came down from heaven, the Son of man which is in heaven. Although he was then on Earth as the Son of Man; yet he ceased not to be God thereby; in his Divine Nature he was then also in Heaven.
HE who is God, can no more be not God, than he who is not God can be God: And our difference with the Socinians herein is, we believe that Christ being God, was made Man for our Sakes; they say, that being only a Man, he was made a God for his own sake.
THIS then is the foundation of the Glory of Christ in this Condescension, the Life and Soul of all heavenly Truth and Mysteries; namely, that the Son of God becoming in time to be what he was not, the Son of Man; ceased not thereby to be what he was, even the Eternal Son of God. Wherefore,