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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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2. BE not satisfied with General Notions concerning the Love of Christ, which represent no Glory unto the Mind, wherewith many deceive themselves. All who believe his divine Person, profess a Valuation of his Love, and think them not Christians who are otherwise minded: But they have only General Notions, and not any distinct Conceptions of it, and really know not what it is. To deliver us from this Snare, peculiar Meditations on its principal Concerns, are required of us. As,
1. WHOSE Love it is; namely, of the divine Person of the Son of God. He is expressly called God, with respect unto the Exercise of this Love; that we may always consider whose it is, 1 Joh. 3. 16. Hereby we perceive the Love of God, because he laid down his Life for us.
1. WHOSE Love it is; namely, of the divine Person of the Son of God. He is expresly called God, with respect unto the Exercise of this Love; that we may always consider whose it is, 1 Joh. 3. 16. Hereby we perceive the Love of God, because he laid down his Life for us.
2. BY what Ways and Means this wonderful Love of the Son of God, doth act it self; namely, in the divine Nature, by Eternal Acts of Wisdom, Goodness and Grace ⟨p. 82⟩proper thereunto; and in the humane by Temporary Acts of Pity or Compassion, with all the Fruits of them in doing and suffering for us, see Ephes. 3. 19.