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Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…
Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decays : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decayes : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...
London: printed by J.A. for William Marshall, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THIS was obscurely represented unto the Church of old, Exo. 3. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a Flame of Fire out of the midst of a Bush, and he looked, and behold the Bush burned with Fire, and the Bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great Sight, why the Bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the Bush, and said, Moses, Moses; and he said, here am I. And he said, draw not nigh hither, •ut of thy Shoes from off thy Feet, for the Place whereon thou standest is holy Ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of •hy Fathers, the God of Abraham, &c.
THIS was obscurly represented unto the Church of old, Exo. 3. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a Flame of Fire out of the midst of a Bush, and he looked, and behold the Bush burned with Fire, and the Bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great Sight, why the Bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the Bush, and said, Moses, Moses; and he said, here am I. And he said, draw not nigh hither, •ut of thy Shooes from off thy Feet, for the Place whereon thou standest is holy Ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of •hy Fathers, the God of Abraham, &c.
THIS Fire was a Type or Declaration of the Presence of God in the Person of the Son. For with respect unto the Father he is called an Angel, the Angel of the Covenant; but absolutely in himself, he was Jehovah, the God of Abraham, &c. And of his Presence the Fire was a proper Representation. For in his Nature, he is as a Consuming Fire; and his present Work was the Delivery of •he Church out of a Fiery Trial. This Fe placed it self in a Bush, where it burned, but the Bush was not consumed: And although the Continuance of the Fire in the