Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
The very condescending of the second person, who natively and essentially is so great, to assume man’s nature, although in this form of God described, invested with all that manifestative glory spoken of, and this from and upon the first moment of his assuming it; if this act of assuming had been done and undertaken principally in order and with intention to satisfy God, by bringing in a new glory to him, greater than that which he lost by him, and this without the least humbling of himself; I ask, why might not this in just reason have been accounted satisfaction?
For (1.) he had thereby lessened himself to give glory to God. For in that assumption, and in that communication of himself to a creature, he takes on him such relations as do in some respects abate of the height of his native personal glory, as he is considered merely as second person; and in respect to this assumption, he is made less than what before he was. For now it may be said of him, as it was by himself, that ‘his Father is greater than he,’ John xiv. 28, whereas he might have kept himself in a foil equality to him in all respects for ever, and to have had no such diminishing respect affixed to him. ...
For more, see Thomas Goodwin on the condescension of Christ.
For (1.) he had thereby lessened himself to give glory to God. For in that assumption, and in that communication of himself to a creature, he takes on him such relations as do in some respects abate of the height of his native personal glory, as he is considered merely as second person; and in respect to this assumption, he is made less than what before he was. For now it may be said of him, as it was by himself, that ‘his Father is greater than he,’ John xiv. 28, whereas he might have kept himself in a foil equality to him in all respects for ever, and to have had no such diminishing respect affixed to him. ...
For more, see Thomas Goodwin on the condescension of Christ.
