...redemption, is the testimony of all Scripture ; he came not to rule, but to be the servant of all. He who was " in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God," in becoming man came not as creation's lord, but " took on him the form of a servant.. ..and,...

...Word was God," even " the mighty Godr," " the great God8," " God over all, blessed for ever'." " He was in the form of God ; and thought it no robbery to be equal with God";" and was therefore rightly "named Emmanuel, God with us';" and is with truth declared to...

...passion of death was made a liit.c lesslhan the Angels, crowned with glory and honour. Therefore he that was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God, gained no honour and glory in this exaltation, but received that which forever was due to...

...condescension of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, " though he was rich, became poor' — who, though " he was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God, made himself of no reputation, taking upon him the form of a servant and being made in the...

...our example. " Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, though he was rich, became poor. 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." He who laid the foundation of the earth, and raised the...

...comes from above, is above all. The all-sufficiency of his satisfaction arises from hence, He that was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to lie equal with God; that is, in the truth of the divine nature was equal with the Father, and without...

...introduced it, and the whole constitution of the Jewish state that prefigured and led to it ; to behold him who was ' in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God, making himself of no reputation, taking upon him the form of a servant, condescending to...

...made flesh and dwelt among men." How strange, and yet how cheering is this truth, that "he who being in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God, made himself of no reputation, took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in likeness...

...was the eastern mode of an affirmative;. All the epistles prove distinctly the divinity of Christ. He was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God ; he was declared to be above angels, and to be the Son of God ; he was manifested in the...

...blessedness resulting from it is consummate and eternal. — The condescension of the divine Son. That He 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,...