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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.
SOME of more refined parts and notional Minds, do arise unto a sedulous Meditation on the Works of Creation and Providence. Hence many excellent Discourses on that Subject, adorned with Eloquence, are published among us. And a Work this is worthy of our Nature, and suited unto our rational Capacities; yea, the first end of our natural Endowment with them. But in all these things there is no Glory in comparison of what is proposed unto us in the mysterious Constitution of the Person of Christ. The Sun hath no Glory, the Moon and Stars no Beauty, the Order and Influence of the Heavenly Bodies, have no Excellency in comparison of it.
This is that which the Psalmist designs to declare, Psal. 8. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the earth! Who hast set thy Glory above the heavens. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy Fingers, the Moon and the Stars which thou hast ordained; what is Man that thou are mindful of him, and the Son of man that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the Angels, and hast ⟨p. 45⟩crowned him with glory and honour; thou hast made him to have Dominion over the work of thy hands, thou hast put all things under his feet.
This is that which the Psalmist designs to declare, Psal. 8. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the earth! Who hast set thy Glory above the heavens. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy Fingers, the Moon and the Stars which thou hast ordained; what is Man that thou are mindful of him, and the Son of man that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the Angels, and hast ⟨p. 45⟩crowned him with glory and honor; thou hast made him to have Dominion over the work of thy hands, thou hast put all things under his feet.