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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 3: The Glory of Christ in the Mysterious Constitution of his Person.
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.
CHAP. III. The Glory of Christ in the Mysterious Constitution of his Person.
THE Second Thing wherein we may behold the Glory of Christ given him of his Father, is in the Mysterious Constitution of his Person, as he is God and Man in one and the same Person. There are in him, in his one single, individual Person, two distinct Natures; The one Eternal, Infinite, Immense, Almighty, the Form and Essence of God; The other having a beginning in Time, Finite, Limited, Confined unto a certain Place, which is our Nature, which he took on him when he was made Flesh, and dwelt among us. The Declaration of the Nature of this Glory, is a Part of my Discourse of the Person of Christ, whereunto I refer the Reader: My present Design is of another Nature.
THIS is that Glory whose Beams are so illustrious, as that the blind World cannot bear the Light and Beauty of them. Multitudes begin openly to deny this Incarnation of the Son of God, this Personal Union of God and Man in their distinct Natures. They deny that there is either Glory or Truth in it; and it will ere long appear, it begins already to evidence it self what greater Multitudes there are, who yet do not, who yet dare not openly reject the Doctrine of it, who in Truth believe it not, nor see any Glory in it. Howbeit this Glory, is the Glory of our Religion, the Glory of the Church, the sole Rock whereon it is built, the only Spring of present Grace, and future Glory.