Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

2. For their sakes he was so made flesh, as that there was an §. 3 emptying, an exinanition of himself, and an eclipsing of his glory, and a becoming poor for them 2 Cor. 8. 9. Ye know the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich, for us he became poor. Being rich in Eternal Glory with his father John 17. 5. He became poor, for Believers. The same person that was rich, was also poor. That the riches here meant can be none but those of the Deity, is evident by its opposition to the poverty which as man he undertook. This is also more fully expressed Phil. 2. 6, 7. Who being in the form of God, counted it no robbery to be equal to God, but he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, and being made in the fashion of a man, and sound in form as a man, &c. That the form of God is here the Essence of the Deity, sundry things inevitably evince. As

2. For their sakes he was so made flesh, as that there was an §. 3 emptying, an exinanition of himselfe, and an eclipsing of his glory, and a becoming poore for them 2 Cor. 8. 9. Ye know the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich, for us he became poore. Being rich in Eternall Glory with his father John 17. 5. He became poore, for Believers. The same person that was rich, was also poore. That the riches here meant can be none but those of the Deity, is evident by its opposition to the poverty which as man he undertooke. This is also more fully expressed Phil. 2. 6, 7. Who being in the forme of God, counted it no robbery to be equall to God, but he emptied himselfe, taking the forme of a servant, and being made in the fashion of a man, and sound in forme as a man, &c. That the forme of God is here the Essence of the Deity, sundry things inevitably evince. As