...peculiar to the Lord Jesus himself, and absolutely imitable in the same kind by us ; that when he was " in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God, [the Father] yet he made himself of no reputation, took upon him the form of a servant, and became...

...be a propitiation, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins. And though he was once in the form of God and thought it no robbery to be equal with God ; yet he made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness...

...us, Phil. ii. 5, 6, 8cc. 'Let the same mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus ; who, when he was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God, made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and became obedient unto death,...

...capable of. So God redeemed his church with his own blood ; Acts xx. 28. ' Inasmuch, as he who was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God, humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, the death of the cross;' Phil. ii. 6 — 8. Now in...

...glory, James ii. 1. It is brought in as a noble aggravation of what he endured, that then " he was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God; he made himself of no reputation, and being found in fashion as a man, took on him the form of a servant,...

...reputation, and took on him the form of a servant.' But he eternally and unchangeably continued ' in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal unto him;' Phil. ii. 6, 7. He can no more really and essentially, by any act of condescension or humiliation,...

...Jesus had to endure in order to accomplish the redemption of His people. He who was essentially " in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God"—He who " in the beginning was with God, and was God"—" The Alpha and Omega, the First and...

...our self-flattery, our self-justification, and our self-righteousness. Christ, although he " was in the form of God, and " thought it no robbery to be equal with God, yet made himself " of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant." The spirit which he here...

...whom he would redeem. Oh, but consider the humiliation of this act of the Son of God, " who was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God ; " that he should " become sin for us who knew no sin ;" that he should endure the vile contact and...

...nothing more than what is true of all the apostles and prophets; but to inform us, that He who was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God, took on him the form of a servant, and became obedient to the death of the cross, affords the most...