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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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BY these divine Communications in the production and preservation of the Creature, doth God manifest his Glory, ⟨p. 119⟩and by them alone in the way of Nature he doth so; and without them, although he would have been for ever essentially glorious, yet was it impossible that his Glory should be known unto any but himself. Wherefore on these divine Communications doth depend the whole Manifestation of the Glory of God. But this is far more eminent, though not in the outward Effects of it so visible in the new Creation, as we shall see.
BY these divine Communications in the production and preservation of the Creature, doth God manifest his Glory, ⟨p. 119⟩and by them alone in the way of Nature he doth so; and without them, although he would have been for ever essentially glorious, yet was it impossible that his Glory should be known unto any but himself. Wherefore on these divine Communications doth depend the whole Maninifestation of the Glory of God. But this is far more eminent, though not in the outward Effects of it so visible in the new Creation, as we shall see.
1. ALL Goodness, Grace, Life, Light, Mercy and Power, which are the Springs and Causes of the New Creation, are all originally in God, in the divine Nature, and that infinitely and essentially. In them is God eternally or essentially glorious, and the whole Design of the New Creation was to manifest his Glory in them by external Communications of them and from them.
2. THE first Communication of, and from these things, is made unto Christ as the Head of the Church. For in the first place, it pleased God that in him should all the fullness of these things dwell, so as that the whole New Creation might consist in him,