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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. THERE is a Mystical Conjunction between Christ and the Church, which answers all the most strict real or moral Unions […] Conjunctions between other persons or things. Such is the Conjunction between the head of a ⟨p. 111⟩body and its members, or the tree of the vine and its branches which are real; or between an Husband and Wife, which is moral and real also. That there is such a Conjunction between Christ and his Church, the Scripture plentifully declares, as also that it is the Foundation of the Equity of his suffering in its stead. So speaks the Apostle, Eph. 5. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. Husbands love your Wives, even as Christ also loved the Church (that is his Wife, the Bride the Lambs Wife) and gave himself for it. &c. Being the Head and Husband of the Church, which was to be sanctified and saved, and could be so no otherwise but by his Blood and Sufferings, he was both meet so to suffer, and it was righteous also that what he did and suffered should be imputed unto them for whom he both did it, and suffered. Let the adversaries of the Glory of Christ assign any one Instance of such a Conjunction, Union and Relation between any amongst mankind, as is between Christ and the Church, and they may give some countenance unto their Cavils against his Obedience and Sufferings in our stead, with the imputation of what he did and suffered unto us. But the Glory of Christ is singular herein, and as such it appears unto them by whom the Mystery of it is in any measure spiritually apprehended.
2. THERE is a Mystical Conjunction between Christ and the Church, which answers all the most strict real or moral Vnions 〈…〉 Conjunctions between other persons or things. Such is the Conjunction between the head of a ⟨p. 111⟩body and its members, or the tree of the vine and its branches which are real; or between an Husband and Wife, which is moral and real also. That there is such a Conjunction between Christ and his Church, the Scripture plentifully declares, as also that it is the Foundation of the Equity of his suffering in its stead. So speaks the Apostle, Eph. 5. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32