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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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WHEREFORE the Susception of our Nature for the Discharge of the Office of Mediation therein, was an Infinite ⟨p. 61⟩Condescension in the Son of God, wherein he is exceedingly Glorious in the Eyes of Believers.
WHEREFORE the Susception of our Nature for the Discharge of the Office of Mediation therein, was an Infinite ⟨p. 61⟩Condescention in the Son of God, wherein he is exceedingly Glorious in the Eyes of Believers.
AND I shall do these three Things. (1.) Show in general the Greatness of this Condescension. (2.) Declare the Especial Nature of it. And (3.) Take what view we are able of the Glory of Christ therein,
AND I shall do these three Things. (1.) Shew in general the Greatness of this Condescention. (2.) Declare the Especial Nature of it. And (3.) Take what view we are able of the Glory of Christ therein,
1. SUCH is the transcendent Excellency of the Divine Nature, that it is said of God, that he dwelleth on high, and humbleth himself to behold the things that are in Heaven, and in the Earth, Psal. 113. 5, 6. He condescends from the Prerogative of his Excellency, to behold, to look upon, to take notice of the most glorious Things in Heaven above, and the greatest Things in the Earth below. All his Respect unto the Creatures, the most glorious of them, is an Act of Infinite Condescension. And it is so on Two Accounts.