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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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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.
BUT as we said before; although the Lord Christ himself in his Person was made to be what he was not before, in that our Nature hereby was made to be his, yet his Divine ⟨p. 66⟩Nature was not so: There is in it neither variableness nor shadow of turning. It abode the same in him in all its Essential Properties, Actings and Blessedness, as it was from Eternity. It neither did, acted, nor suffered any thing, but what is proper unto the Divine Being: The Lord Christ did and suffered many things in Life and Death, in his own Person, by his Human Nature, wherein the Divine neither did, nor suffered any thing at all; although in the doing of them, his Person be denominated from that Nature; so God purchased his Church with his own Blood, Act. 20. 28.
BUT as we said before; altho the Lord Christ himself in his Person was made to be what he was not before, in that our Nature hereby was made to be his, yet his Divine ⟨p. 66⟩