Emmanuel, or, God-man a treatise wherein the doctrine of the first Nicene and Chalcedon councels, concerning the two natures in Christ, is asserted against the lately vented Socinian doctrine / by John Tombes ...

SECT. 23. (Book 23)

The Exception against this Argument is recited.

TO this Argument the Exception is thus made: The words and sense being thus: Let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus; who being in the form of God (for the exercise and demonstration of Divine Power, whereby he wrought Mi∣racles in as free and uncontrouled a manner as if God himself had been on the earth) thought it not robbery (or a prey) to be equal with God (that is did not esteem this equa∣lity of his with God, consisting in the free ex∣ercise of Divine Power, to be a prey, by holding it fast, and refusing to let it go, as Robers are want to do when they have got a prey or booty) but (Gr.) emptied himself (in making no use of the Divine Power with∣in him to rescue himself out of the hands of the Officers sent to apprehend him) and took upon him the form of a Servant (in suffering himself to be apprehended, bound and whipt as Servants are wont to be) being made in

the likeness of men (that is ordinary and vulgar men, who are endued with no D••vine Power) and being found in fashion (or ha∣bit) as a man (that is, in outward quality, condition and acting, no whit differing from a common man) he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross.