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

2. The form of God is opposed to the form of a Servant, and that form of a Servant, is called the fashion of a man, v. 8. that fashion wherein he was found when he gave himself to death. wherein as a man he poured out his blood and dyed: [Greek or Hebrew], (he took the form of a servant) is expounded in the next words [Greek or Hebrew]: an expression used to set out his Incarnation. Rom. 8. 3. God sent him [Greek or Hebrew], in taking true flesh, he was in the likeness of sinful flesh. Now in thus doing, it is said [Greek or Hebrew], he humbled, emptied himself, made himself of no reputation. In the very taking of flesh, there was a condescension, a debasing of the person of the Son of God: It could not be without it. If God humbled himself ⟨p. 152⟩to behold the things that are in Heaven & Earth, Psal. 113. 6. then certainly it was an inconceivable condescension and abasement not only to behold, but take upon him, into personal union, our nature with himself. And though nothing could possibly be taken off from the essential Glory of the Deity, yet that Person appearing in the fashion of a man, and form of a servant, the Glory of it as to the manifestation was eclipsed; and he appeared ^fquite another thing, then what indeed he was, and had been from Eternity. Hence he prays, that his Father would Glorify him, with the glory he had with him before the world was Joh. 17. 3. as to the manifestation of it. And so though the divine nature was not abased, the person was.

2. The forme of God is opposed to the forme of a Servant, and that forme of a Servant, is called the fashion of a man, v. 8. that fashion wherein he was found when he gave himselfe to death. wherein as a man he powred out his blood and dyed: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, (he took the forme of a servant) is expounded in the next words 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: an expression used to set out his Incarnation.