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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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4. THIS Condescension of Christ was not by a Phantasm or an Appearance only. One of the first Heresies that pestered the Church immediately after the Days of the Apostles, was this, that all that was done or suffered by Christ as a Man, were not the Acts, Doings or Sufferings of one that was truly and really a Man, but an outward Representation of things, like the Appearance of Angels in the Shape of Men, eating and drinking under the Old Testament; and suitably hereunto some in our Days have spoken; namely, that there was only an Appearance of Christ in the Man Jesus at Jerusalem, in whom he suffered no more than in other Believers. But the ancient Christians told those Men the Truth; namely, that as they had feigned unto themselves an imaginary Christ, so they should have an imaginary Salvation only.
4. THIS Condescention of Christ was not by a Phantasm or an Appearance only. One of the first Heresies that pestered the Church immediately after the Days of the Apostles, was this, that all that was done or suffered by Christ as a Man, were not the Acts, Doings or Sufferings of one that was truly and really a Man, but an outward Representation of things, like the Appearance of Angels in the Shape of Men, eating and drinking under the Old Testament; and suitably hereunto some in our Days have spoken; namely, that there was only an Appearance of Christ in the Man Jesus at Jerusalem, in whom he suffered no more than in other Believers. But the ancient Christians told those Men the Truth; namely, that as they had feigned unto themselves an imaginary Christ, so they should have an imaginary Salvation only.
BUT the true Nature of this Divine Condescension doth consist in these three Things.
BUT the true Nature of this Divine Condescention doth consist in these three Things.