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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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THIS Mediator could not be God himself absolutely considered; for a Mediator is not of one, but God is one; Gal. 3. 20. Whatever God might do herein in a way of Sovereign Grace, yet he could not do it in the way of Mediation, which yet was necessary unto his own Glory, as we have at large discoursed elsewhere.
AND as for Creatures, there was none in Heaven or Earth that was meet to undertake this Office. For if one Man sin against another, the Judge shall judge herein; but if a Man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him? 1 Sam. 2. 25. There is not any days-man betwixt us to lay his hand upon us both, Job 9. 33.
IN this State of Things the Lord Christ as the Son of God said, Lo I come to do thy Will, O God; sacrifice and burnt offerings thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me, and Lo I come to do thy Will, Heb. 10. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. By the Assumption of our Nature into Union with himself, in his one Divine Person he became every way meet for the Discharge of this Office, and undertakes it accordingly.