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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. AGAIN, The Glory of Christ is proposed unto us in what he suffered in the Discharge of the Office which he had undertaken. There belonged indeed unto his Office, Victory, Success, and Triumph with great Glory, Isa. 63. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. but there were Sufferings also required of him antecedently thereunto. Ought not Christ to suffer, and to enter into his Glory?
2. AGAIN, The Glory of Christ is proposed unto us in what he suffered in the Discharg of the Office which he had undertaken. There belonged indeed unto his Office, Victory, Success, and Triumph with great Glory, Isa. 63. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. but there were Sufferings also required of him antecedently thereunto. Ought not Christ to suffer, and to enter into his Glory?
BUT such were these Sufferings of Christ, as that in our Thoughts about them, our Minds quickly recoil in a Sense of their Insufficiency to conceive a Right of them: Never any one launched into this Ocean with his Meditations, but he quickly found himself unable to fathom the Depths of it: Nor shall I here undertake an Enquiry into them. I shall only point at this Spring of Glory, and leave it under a Veil.
BUT such were these Sufferings of Christ, as that in our Thoughts about them, our Minds quickly recoil in a Sense of their Insufficiency to conceive a Right of them: Never any one launched into this Ocean with his Meditations, but he quickly found himself unable to fathom the Depths of it: Nor shall I here undertake an Enquiry into them. I shall only point at this Spring of Glory, and leave it under a Vail.
WE might here look on him as under the Weight of the Wrath of God, and the Curse of the Law; taking on himself, and on his whole Soul, the utmost of Evil that God had ever threatened to Sin or Sinners; we might look on him in his Agony and bloody Sweat, in his strong Cries and Supplications, when he was sorrowful unto the Death, and began to be amazed, in apprehensions of the things that were coming on him; of that dreadful Trial which he was entering into: we might look upon him, conflicting with all the Powers of Darkness, the Rage and Madness