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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

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

…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

Men in age do not usually persist in the pursuit of youthful lusts, although they have never mortified any one of them. And the same is the case of bartering of lusts, and leaving to serve one that a man may serve another. He that changes pride for worldliness, sensuality for Pharisaism, vanity in himself to the contempt of others, let him not thing that he has mortified the sin that he seems to have left. He has changed his master, but is a servant still.

—John Owen - Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers