...up with Him ; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him." Then it was that " I was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God." Then it was, that in the counsels of eternity — "the counsel of peace that was between them both,"...

...he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor. 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. Jesus, during his estate of humiliation, gave occasional proofs of his power and glory ; and...

...of a righteous kingdom ? You know the amazing expedient ! You know its grace; how, though He was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God, He made himself of no reputation, took our nature, assumed our liabilities,, and humbled himself so...

...purport on both sides, is the testimony of the Apostle Paul, who tells us that Christ Jesus was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God : but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness...

...the Father, and shared with him the throne of the universe. As the apostle expresses it, he was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God. God was then all in all. The names of Father, Son. and Spirit were unknown, though that mysterious...

...requirements of salvation demanded that He should unrobe Himself of his divine nature ; although He was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God, He never hesitated. When the fearful and critical Btatc of man, God's favoured creature, demanded His...

...the beginning with God, and was God, that was made flesh, and dwelt among men. It was he who was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with him, who was found in fashion as a man, and took on him the form of a servant. In the act of laying...

...Who, though He was God, emptied Himself of His glory, and became man, and humbled Himself, and took on Him the form of a servant, and became obedient to death, even to death on the cross. (2) What the Apostle specially dwells on in the Condescension of Christ, is...

...And that God might be just in justifying the ungodly, though He was iu 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. In that nature He obeyed, and thereby fulfilled, the whole moral law in...

...Biekersteth. DESIGN OP CHRIST'S HUMILIATION. The condescension of the Divine Son, that ho " who was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God ;" that he whom angels obey, that he whom seraphs adore, and before whom they veil their faces, as...