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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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2. MUCH less did this Condescension consist in the Conversion of the Divine Nature into the Humane, which was the Imagination of some of the Arians of old, and we have yet (to my own knowledge) some that follow them in the same Dotage. They say that the Word which was in ⟨p. 65⟩the Beginning, by which all things were made, being in it self an Effect of the Divine Will and Power, was in the fullness of time turned into Flesh; that is, the Substance of it was so, as the Water in the Miracle wrought by our Saviour, was turned into Wine; for by an Act of the Divine Power of Christ it ceased to be Water substantially, and was Wine only; not Water mixed with Wine: So these Men suppose a Substantial Change of the one Nature into the other, of the divine Nature into the humane; like what the Papists imagine in their Transubstantiation: So they say God was made Man, his Essence being turned into that of a Man.
2. MUCH less did this Condescention consist in the Conversion of the Divine Nature into the Humane, which was the Imagination of some of the Arians of old, and we have yet (to my own knowledg) some that follow them in the same Dotage. They say that the Word which was in ⟨p. 65⟩the Beginning, by which all things were made, being in it self an Effect of the Divine Will and Power, was in the fulness of time turned into Flesh; that is, the Substance of it was so, as the Water in the Miracle wrought by our Saviour, was turned into Wine; for by an Act of the Divine Power of Christ it ceased to be Water substantially, and was Wine only; not Water mixed with Wine: So these Men suppose a Substantial Change of the one Nature into the other, of the divine Nature into the humane; like what the Papists imagine in their Trasubstantiation: So they say God was made Man, his Essence being turned into that of a Man.
BUT this no way belongs unto the Condescension of Christ. We may call it Ichabod, it hath no Glory in it. It destroys both his Natures, and leaves him a Person in whom we are not concerned. For according unto this Imagination, that Divine Nature wherein he was in the Form of God, did in its own Form cease to be, yea, was utterly destroyed, as being substantially changed into the Nature of Man; as the Water did cease to be, when it was turned into Wine; and that humane Nature which was made thereof, hath no Alliance or Kindred unto us, or our Nature, seeing it was not made of a Woman, but of the Substance of the Word.