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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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1. THAT this Nature of ours, is capable of this glorious Exaltation and Subsistence in God. No Creature could conceive how Omnipotent Wisdom, Power and Goodness, could actuate themselves unto the Production of this Effect. The Mystery hereof, is the Object of the Admiration of Angels, and will be so of the whole Church unto all Eternity. What is revealed concerning the Glory, way and manner of it in the Scripture, I have declared in my Treatise concerning the Mystery of Godliness, or the Person of Christ. What mind can Conceive, what Tongue can Express, who can sufficiently Admire the Wisdom, Goodness and Condescension of God herein! And whereas he hath proposed unto us this glorious Object of our Faith and Meditation, how vile and foolish are we, if we spend our thoughts about other things in a neglect of it!
1. THAT this Nature of ours, is capable of this glorious Exaltation and Subsistence in God. No Creature could conceive how Omnipotent Wisdom, Power and Goodness, could actuate themselves unto the Production of this Effect. The Mystery hereof, is the Object of the Admiration of Angels, and will be so of the whole Church unto all Eternity. What is revealed concerning the Glory, way and manner of it in the Scripture, I have declared in my Treatise concerning the Mystery of Godliness, or the Person of Christ. What mind can Conceive, what Tongue can Express, who can sufficiently Admire the Wisdom, Goodness and Condescention of God herein! And whereas he hath proposed unto us this glorious Object of our Faith and Meditation, how vile and foolish are we, if we spend our thoughts about other things in a neglect of it!
2. THIS is also an ineffable Pledge of the Love of God into our Nature. For although he will not take it in any other Instance, save that of the Man Christ Jesus, into this Relation with himself, by virtue of personal Union; Yet therein he hath given a glorious Pledge of his Love unto, and Valuation of that Nature. For verily he took not on him the nature of Angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham. And this kindness intends unto our Persons, as Participant of that Nature. For he designed this Glory unto the ⟨image 5⟩