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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
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HEREIN is he glorious, in a way and manner incomprehensible: For in the Glory of Divine Love, the chief Brightness of Glory doth consist. There is nothing of Dread or Terror accompanying it, nothing but what is amiable and infinitely refreshing. Now that we may take a view of the Glory of Christ herein by Faith, the Nature of it must be enquired into.
1. THE Eternal Disposing Cause of the whole work wherein the Lord Christ was engaged by the Susception of this Office, for the Redemption and Salvation of the Church, is the Love of the Father. Hereunto it is constantly ascribed in the Scripture. And this Love of the Father acted it self in his Eternal Decrees, before the foundation of the world, Eph. 1. 4. and afterwards in the sending of his Son to render it effectual, Joh. 3. 16. Originally, it is his Eternal Election of a Portion of mankind to be brought unto the enjoyment of himself, through the Mystery of the Blood of Christ, and the Sanctification of the Spirit, 2 Thes. 2. 13, 16. 1 Ephes. 1. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 1 Pet. 1. 2.
THIS Eternal Act of the Will of God the Father, doth not contain in it an actual approbation of, and complacency in the state and condition of those that are elected; but only designeth that for them on the Account whereof, they shall be accepted and approved. And it is called his Love on sundry Accounts.