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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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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.
BUT this no way belongs unto the Condescention 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.
3. THERE was not in this Condescension, the least Change or Alteration in the Divine Nature. Eutiches and those that followed him of old, conceived that the two Natures of Christ, the Divine and Humane were mixed and compounded as it were into one: And this could not be without an Alteration in the divine Nature, for it would be made to be essentially what it was not; for one Nature hath but one and the same Essence.
3. THERE was not in this Condescention, the least Change or Alteration in the Divine Nature. Eutiches and those that followed him of old, conceived that the two Natures of Christ, the Divine and Humane were mixed and compounded as it were into one: And this could not be without an Alteration in the divine Nature, for it would be made to be essentially what it was not; for one Nature hath but one and the same Essence.