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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
HEREON depends the Ruin of Satan and his Kingdom. His Sin, so far as we can conceive, consisted of two Parts (1.) His Pride against the Person of the Son of God, by whom he was created. For by him were all things created that are (or were when first created) in Heaven, whether they be Thrones or Dominions, or Principalities or Powers, Col. 1. 16. Against him he lifted up himself, which was the Beginning of his Transgression. (2.) Envy against Mankind made in the Image of God, of the Son of God the First-born. This completed his Sin; nothing was now left whereon to act his Pride and Malice. Unto his Eternal Confusion and Ruin God in infinite Wisdom unites both the Natures he had sinned against, in the one Person of the Son, who was the first Object of his Pride and Malice. Hereby his Destruction is attended with Everlasting Shame in the Discovery of his Folly, wherein he would have contended with infinite Wisdom, as well as Misery, by the Powers of the two Natures united in one Person.
HEREON depends the Ruine of Satan and his Kingdom. His Sin, so far as we can conceive, consisted of two Parts (1.) His Pride against the Person of the Son of God, by whom he was created. For by him were all things created that are (or were when first created) in Heaven, whether they be Thrones or Dominions, or Principalities or Powers, Col. 1. 16. Against him he lifted up himself, which was the Beginning of his Transgression. (2.) Envy against Mankind made in the Image of God, of the Son of God the First-born. This compleated his Sin; nothing was now left whereon to act his Pride and Malice. Unto his Eternal Confusion and Ruine God in infinite Wisdom unites both the Natures he had sinned against, in the one Person of the Son, who was the first Object of his Pride and Malice. Hereby his Destruction is attended with Everlasting Shame in the Discovery of his Folly, wherein he would have contended with infinite Wisdom, as well as Misery, by the Powers of the two Natures united in one Person.
HERE lies the Foundation of the Church. The Foundation of the whole Old Creation was laid in an Act of absolute Sovereign Power. Hereby God hanged the Earth upon nothing. But the Foundation of the Church is on