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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.
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HE is engaged in a Contemplation of the Glory of God in his Works; and he concludes that the Fabric of Heaven, with the Moon and Stars therein (for it was his Meditation by Night, when he beheld them) was exceeding glorious, and greatly to be admired. This casts his Thoughts on the poor, weak, infirm Nature of Man, which seems as nothing in comparison of those Glories above: But immediately hereon falls into an Admiration of the Wisdom, Goodness, and Love of God, exalting that Nature incomparably above all the Works of Creation in the Person of Jesus Christ, as the Apostle expounds this place, Heb. 2. 5, 6.
HE is engaged in a Contemplation of the Glory of God in his Works; and he concludes that the Fabrick of Heaven, with the Moon and Stars therein (for it was his Meditation by Night, when he beheld them) was exceeding glorious, and greatly to be admired. This casts his Thoughts on the poor, weak, infirm Nature of Man, which seems as nothing in comparison of those Glories above: But immediately hereon falls into an Admiration of the Wisdom, Goodness, and Love of God, exalting that Nature incomparably above all the Works of Creation in the Person of Jesus Christ, as the Apostle expounds this place, Heb. 2. 5, 6.
THIS therefore is the highest, the best, the most useful Object of our Thoughts and Affections. He who hath had a real View of this Glory, though he know himself to be a poor, sinful, dying Worm of the Earth, yet would he not be an Angel in Heaven, if thereby he should loose the sight of it; for this is the Centre wherein all the Lines of the Manifestation of the Divine Glory do meet and rest.
THIS therefore is the highest, the best, the most useful Object of our Thoughts and Affections. He who hath had a real View of this Glory, though he know himself to be a poor, sinful, dying Worm of the Earth, yet would he not be an Angel in Heaven, if thereby he should loose the sight of it; for this is the Center wherein all the Lines of the Manifestation of the Divine Glory do meet and rest.