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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.
THIS Fire was a Type or Declaration of the Presence of God in the Person of the Son. For with respect unto the Father he is called an Angel, the Angel of the Covenant; but absolutely in himself, he was Jehovah, the God of Abraham, &c. And of his Presence the Fire was a proper Representation. For in his Nature, he is as a Consuming Fire; and his present Work was the Delivery of the Church out of a Fiery Trial. This Fire placed it self in a Bush, where it burned, but the Bush was not consumed. And although the Continuance of the Fire in the ⟨p. 42⟩Bush, was but for a short season, a present Appearance; yet thence was God said to dwell in the Bush; The good will of him that dwelt in the Bush, Deut. 33. 16. And this is so spoken, because the being of the Fire in the Bush for a season, was a Type of him in whom the fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily, and that for ever, Col. 2. 9. Of him who was made flesh and dwelt among us, Joh. 1. 14. The Eternal Fire of the Divine Nature dwells in the Bush of our frail Nature, yet is not consumed thereby. God thus dwells in this Bush, with all his Good will towards Sinners.
THIS Fire was a Type or Declaration of the Presence of God in the Person of the Son. For with respect unto the Father he is called an Angel, the Angel of the Covenant; but absolutely in himself, he was Jehovah, the God of Abraham, &c. And of his Presence the Fire was a proper Representation. For in his Nature, he is as a Consuming Fire; and his present Work was the Delivery of the Church out of a Fiery Tryal. This Fire placed it self in a Bush, where it burned, but the Bush was not consumed. And although the Continuance of the Fire in the ⟨p. 42⟩Bush, was but for a short season, a present Appearance; yet thence was God said to dwell in the Bush; The good will of him that dwelt in the Bush, Deut. 33. 16. And this is so spoken, because the being of the Fire in the Bush for a season, was a Type of him in whom the fulness of the Godhead dwelt bodily, and that for ever,