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For, that no flesh might glory in itself, he [Peter] that was singular in this confession of Christ, was so also in his denial of him.

—John Owen The Person of Christ - God and Man

For if Christ be the rock where on the church is built, whereas he is a living stone, those that are laid and built on him must be lively stones also… they must be like unto Christ himself, partaking of his nature, quickened by his Spirit, so, as it were, to be bone of his bones, and flesh of his flesh… Nor can any be built on him but a living faith, effectual in universal obedience. These things the generality of men like not at all.

—John Owen The Person of Christ - God and Man

Whether thou readest or writest, whether thou watchest or sleepest, let the voice of love (to Christ) sound in thine ears; let this trumpet stir up thy soul: being overpowered (brought into ecstasy) with this love, seek Him on thy bed whom thy soul desireth and longeth for.

—Jerome as quoted by John Owen in The Person of Christ - God and Man 

The Father did not assume flesh, nor the Holy Spirit, but the Son only; that he who in the Deity was the Son of the Father, should be made the Son of man, in his mother of human race; that the name of the Son of man should not pass unto any other, who was not the Son by eternal nativity.

—Augustine as quoted by John Owen in The Person of Christ - God and Man

For, until men feel that they owe everything to God, that they are cherished by his paternal care, and that he is the author of all blessings, so that naught is to be looked for away from him, they will never submit to him in voluntary obedience; no, unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity.

—John Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion

Wherefore, as we said before, he united man unto God. For if man had not overcome the adversary of men, the enemy had not been justly conquered; and, on the other hand, if God had not given and granted salvation, we could never have a firm indefeasible possession of it; and if man had not be united unto God, he could not have been a partaker of immortality. It behoved, therefore, the Mediator between God and man, by his own participation of the nature of each of them, to bring them both into friendship and agreement with each other.

—Irenaeus as quoted by John Owen in The Person of Christ - God and Man

But although our mind cannot conceive of God, without rendering some worship to him, it will not, however be sufficient simply to hold that he is the only being whom all ought worship and adore, unless we are also persuaded that he is the fountain of all goodness, and that we must seek everything in him, and in none but him. My meaning is: we must be persuaded not only that as he once formed the world, so he sustains it by his boundless power, governs it by his wisdom, preserves it by his goodness, in particular, rules the human race with justice and judgement, bears with them in mercy, shields them by his protection; but also that not a particle of light, or wisdom, or justice, or power, or rectitude, or genuine truth, will anywhere be found, which does not flow from him, and thankfully ascribe to him whatever we receive.

—John Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion

…we believe not what you affirm, that Christ was made God; but we believe that God was made Christ. For he was not made rich when he was poor; but being rich, he was made poor, that he might make us rich. He did not take the form of God when he was int he form of a servant; but being in the form of God, he took on him the form of a servant. In like manner, he was not made the Word when he was flesh, but being the Word, he was made flesh.

—Maxentius as quotes by John Owen in The Person of Christ - God and Man

By beams of the sun, light, and life, and heat unto the procreation, sustenation, refreshment, and cherishing of all things are communicated. But if the sun itself should come down unto the earth, nothing could bear its heat and lustre; our eyes would not be enlightened but darkened by its glory, and all things be swallowed up and consumed by its greatness; whereas, through the beams of it, every thing is enlightened and kindly refreshed. So is it with this eternal beam or brightness of the Father’s glory. We cannot bear the immediate approach of the Divine Being; but through him, as incarnate, are all things communicated unto us, in a way suited unto our reception and comprehension.

—Eusebius as quoted by John Owen in The Person of Christ - God and Man