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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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ANOTHER instance of the Glory of Christ which we are to behold here by Faith, and hope that we shall do so by sight hereafter, consists in the Mysterious Communication of himself and all the Benefits of his Mediation, unto the souls of them that do believe, to their present happiness and future eternal Blessedness.
HEREBY he becomes theirs as they are his; which is the Life, the Glory and Consolation of the Church, Cant. 6. 3. Chap. 2. 16. Chap. 3. 10. He and all that he is being appropriated unto them by virtue of their Mystical Union; There is, there must be some Ground, formal Reason and Cause of this Relation between Christ and the Church, whereby he is theirs, and they are his; he is in them, and they in him; so as it is not between him and other Men in the World.
HEREBY he becomes theirs as they are his; which is the Life, the Glory and Consolation of the Church, Cant. 6. 3. Chap. 2. 16. Chap. 3. 10. He and all that he is being appropriated unto them by vertue of their Mystical Union; There is, there must be some Ground, formal Reason and Cause of this Relation between Christ and the Church, whereby he is theirs, and they are his; he is in them, and they in him; so as it is not between him and other Men in the World.
THE Apostle speaking of this Communication of Christ unto the Church, and the Union between them, which doth ensue thereon, affirms that is a Great Mystery; for I speak, saith he, concerning Christ and the Church, Ephes. 5. 32.