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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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Chapter 2: The Glory of the Person of Christ, as the only Representative of God unto the Church.
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.
SOME few Inferences from the Whole of what hath been declared, shall put a Close to this part of our Discourse.
1. THE Holy Properties of the Divine Nature are not only represented unto our Faith in Christ as unto their own essential Glory, but as they are in the Exercise of their Powers for the Salvation of the Church. In him do we behold the Wisdom, Goodness, Love, Grace, Mercy and Power of God acting themselves in the Contrivance, Constitution, and efficacious Accomplishment of the great Work of our Redemption and Salvation. This gives, as unto us, an unutterable Lustre unto the Native Amiableness of the Divine Excellencies. The Wisdom and Love of God are in themselves infinitely Glorious, infinitely Amiable; nothing can be added unto them, there can be no increase of their essential Glory. Howbeit as they are eternally resident in the Divine Nature, and absolutely the same with it, we cannot so comprehend them, as to have an endearing satiating View of their Glory: But as they are exerted in the Work of the Redemption ⟨p. 37⟩and Salvation of the Church, as they are expressed, communicating their blessed Effects unto the Souls of them that do believe, which is done only in Christ; so the Beams of their Glory shine unto us with unspeakable Refreshment and Joy, 2 Cor. 4. 6. Hence the Apostle on the Consideration of the Actings of the Holy Properties of God in this blessed Work, falls into that Contemplation: O the Depth of the Riches both of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his Judgments, and his Ways past finding out! For who hath not known the Mind of the Lord, or who hath been his Counsellor, or who hath first given unto him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, and through him, and to him are all things; to whom be Glory for ever, Amen, Rom: 11. 33, 34, 35, 36.
1. THE Holy Properties of the Divine Nature are not only represented unto our Faith in Christ as unto their own essential Glory, but as they are in the Exercise of their Powers for the Salvation of the Church. In him do we behold the Wisdom, Goodness, Love, Grace, Mercy and Power of God acting themselves in the Contrivance, Constitution, and efficacious Accomplishment of the great Work of our Redemption and Salvation. This gives, as unto us, an unutterable Lustre unto the Native Amiableness of the Divine Excellencies. The Wisdom and Love of God are in themselves infinitely Glorious, infinitely Amiable; nothing can be added unto them, there can be no encrease of their essential Glory. Howbeit as they are eternally resident in the Divine Nature, and absolutely the same with it, we cannot so comprehend them, as to have an endearing satiating View of their Glory: But as they are exerted in the Work of the Redemption