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Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
Meditations and discourses on the glory of Christ, in his person, office, and grace with the differences between faith and sight applied unto the use of them that believe / by the late Reverend John Owen, D.D.
London: printed by B.A., 1691
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. HE it is in whom our Nature, which was debased as low as Hell by Apostasy from God, is exalted above the whole Creation. Our Nature in the Original Constitution of it, in the persons of our first Parents, was crowned with Honour and Dignity. The Image of God wherein it was made, and the Dominion over the lower World wherewith it was entrusted, made it the Seat of excellency, of Beauty and of Glory. But of them all it was at once devested and made naked by sin, and laid grovelling in the Dust from whence it was taken. Dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return, was its righteous Doom. And all its internal faculties were invaded by deformed Lusts; every thing that might render the whole unlike unto God, whose Image it had lost. Hence it became the contempt of Angels, the Dominion of Satan, who being the enemy of the whole Creation, never had any thing or place to reign in, but the debased nature of Man. Nothing was now more vile and base, its Glory was utterly departed. It had both lost its peculiar nearness unto God, which was its Honour, and was fallen into the greatest Distance from him of all Creatures, the Devils only excepted, which was its Ignominy and Shame. And in this state, as unto any thing in it self, it was left to perish eternally.
1. HE it is in whom our Nature, which was debased as low as Hell by Apostasy from God, is exalted above the whole Creation. Our Nature in the Original Constitution of it, in the persons of our first Parents, was crowned with Honour and Dignity. The Image of God wherein it was made, and the Dominion over the lower World wherewith it was intrusted, made it the Seat of excellency, of Beauty and of Glory. But of them all it was at once devested and made naked by sin, and laid grovelling in the Dust from whence it was taken. Dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return, was its righteous Doom. And all its internal faculties were invaded by deformed Lusts; every thing that might render the whole unlike unto God, whose Image it had lost. Hence it became the contempt of Angels, the Dominion of Satan, who being the enemy of the whole Creation, never had any thing or place to reign in, but the debased nature of Man. Nothing was now more vile and base, its Glory was utterly departed. It had both lost its peculiar nearness unto God, which was its Honour, and was fallen into the greatest Distance from him of all Creatures, the Devils only excepted, which was its Ignominy and Shame. And in this state, as unto any thing in it self, it was left to perish eternally.