 | Philo-Delphus (pseud.) - 1719 - 332 pages
...he would not take upon him any the leaft Defilement of it. And tho" he was ini the Form of God, and thought it no Robbery to be equal with God, yet he took upon him the Form of a Servant, and became obedient to Death, even the Death of the Crofs. Seft. 4. Of the fourth Article,... | |
 | George Whitefield - 1772 - 490 pages
...philanthropy; I mean, GOD'S love to man: For behold, what man could n,ot do, JESUS CHRIST, the fon , of his Father's love, undertakes to do for him. And...of a fervant," even human nature. In that nature he obeyed, and thereby fulfilled the whole moral law in our Head ; and alfo died a painful death upon... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 530 pages
...are poor againft their will, but he became poor voluntarily : he became a poor fervant; " Though he thought it no robbery to be equal with God, yet he took upon him the form of a fervant ;>J taking on our nature, not in its beft condition, but the loweft ilate of our nature. He became... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 540 pages
...was God, yet he became man, in rich grace and love towards us; " Tho' he was in the form of God, arid thought it no robbery to be equal with God; yet he took upon him the form of a iervant, and made himfelf of no reputation," Phil, iu 6, 7. And indeed, that hefhould marry our nature... | |
 | John Gill - 1796 - 570 pages
...Son he sait/i, Thy throne, 0 God, &cc. yet, Christ calls himself God ; as he well might, since he is in the form of God, and therefore thought it no robbery to be equal to him ; saying, Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am Gsd, and there... | |
 | Richard Sibbes - 1809 - 490 pages
...look to the perfon that was this fervant, the apoftle in Phil, ii will tell you, " he thought it not robbery to be equal «« with God, yet he took upon him the form of a fervant ;" was not this wonderful for God to become man, the glorious God to abafe himfelf to be a ferrant... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1824 - 520 pages
...blood, he also himself took part of the same a. Although, being in the form of God, he thought it not robbery to be equal with God, yet he took upon him the form of a servant, was made in the likeness of men, and being found in fashion as a man, humbled himself, and... | |
 | John Prentiss Kewley Henshaw - 1831 - 240 pages
...unspeakable sufferings of thy Lord ! Reflect, that "though he was in the form of God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God, yet, he took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of sinful flesh." Thjnk of him as having voluntarily become the... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1833 - 604 pages
...to the " washing of his disciples' feet1:" yea, though he was in the form of God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God, yet he took upon him the form of a servant, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." " This is the mind that should... | |
 | John Gillies - 1834 - 672 pages
...Christ, the Son of the Father's love, undertakes to do for him. And that God might be just in justifying the ungodly, though he was in the form of God, and...equal with God, yet he took upon him the form of a servant, even human nature. In that nature he obeyed, and thereby fulfilled the whole moral law in... | |
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God might be just in justifying the ungodly, though 'he was in the form of God, and therefore thought it no robbery to be equal with God; yet he took upon him the form of a servant', even human nature. 
