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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
Chapter 4 › First in his Condescension.Chapter 4 › First in his Condescention.
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THE Things whereof we have thus far discoursed, relating immediately unto the Person of Christ in it self, may seem to have somewhat of Difficulty in them, unto such whose Mind are not duly exercised in the Contemplation of Heavenly Things. Unto others they are evident in their own Experience, and instructive unto them that are willing to learn. That which remains will be yet more plain unto the Understanding and Capacity of the meanest Believer. And this is the Glory of Christ in his Office of Mediator, and the Discharge thereof.
IN our beholding of the Glory of Christ herein, doth the Exercise of Faith in this Life principally consist; so the Apostle declares it, Phil. 3. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Yea doubtless, and I count all things loss for the Excellency of the Knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.—To know him, and the Power of his Resurrection, and the Fellowship of his Sufferings, and to be made conformable unto his Death. This ⟨p. 59⟩therefore we must treat of somewhat more at large.
THERE is one God, saith the Apostle, and one Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim. 2. 5. In that great difference between God and Man occasioned by our Sin and Apostasy from him, which of it self could issue in nothing but the utter Ruin of the whole Race of Mankind, there was none in Heaven or Earth in their Original Nature and Operations, who was meet or able to make up a Righteous Peace between them. Yet must this be done by a Mediator, or cease for ever.
THERE is one God, saith the Apostle, and one Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus.