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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.
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.
HOW glorious then is the Condescension of the Son of God in his Susception of the Office of Mediation? For if such ⟨p. 63⟩be the Perfection of the Divine Nature, and its distance so absolutely Infinite from the whole Creation, and if such be his Self sufficiency unto his own Eternal Blessedness, as that nothing can be taken from him, nothing added unto him, so that every Regard in him unto any of the Creatures, is an Act of Self-humiliation and Condescension from the Prerogative of his Being and State; what Heart can conceive, what Tongue can express the Glory of that Condescension in the Son of God, whereby he took our Nature upon him, took it to be his own, in order unto a discharge of the Office of Mediation on our Behalf?
HOW glorious then is the Condescention of the Son of God in his Susception of the Office of Mediation? For if such ⟨p. 63⟩be the Perfection of the Divine Nature, and its distance so absolutely Infinite from the whole Creation, and if such be his Self sufficiency unto his own Eternal Blessedness, as that nothing can be taken from him, nothing added unto him, so that every Regard in him unto any of the Creatures, is an Act of Self-umiliation and Condescention from the Prerogative of his Being and State; what Heart can conceive, what Tongue can express the Glory of that Condescention in the Son of God, whereby he took our Nature upon him, took it to be his own, in order unto a discharge of the Office of Mediation on our Behalf?
BUT that we may the better behold the Glory of Christ herein, we may briefly consider the Especial Nature of this Condescension, and wherein it doth consist.
BUT that we may the better behold the Glory of Christ herein, we may briefly consider the Especial Nature of this Condescention, and wherein it doth consist.