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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.
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 ⟨p. 41⟩this Mysterious immovable Rock; Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God; on the most intimate Conjunction of the two Natures, the Divine and Humane, in themselves infinitely distant, in the same Person.
HERE lies the Foundation of the Church. The Foundation of the whole Old Creation was laid in an Act of absolute Soveraign Power. Hereby God hanged the Earth upon nothing. But the Foundation of the Church is on ⟨p. 41⟩this Mysterious immoveable Rock; Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God; on the most intimate Conjunction of the two Natures, the Divine and Humane, in themselves infinitely distant, in the same Person.
WE may name one place wherein it is gloriously represented unto us, Isa. 9. 6. For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the Government shall be on his Shoulders; and his Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Here must the whole Church fall down and worship the Author of this wonderful Contrivance, and captivating their Understandings unto the Obedience of Faith, humbly adore what they cannot comprehend.
THIS was obscurely represented unto the Church of old, Exo. 3. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6