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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.
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.
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⟩Man Christ Jesus, that he might be the first-born of the New Creation, that we might be made conformable unto him according to our measure; and as the Members of that Body, whereof he is the Head, we are Participant in this Glory.
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 vertue 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⟩Man Christ Jesus, that he might be the first-born of the New Creation, that we might be made conformable unto him according to our measure; and as the Members of that Body, whereof he is the Head, we are Participant in this Glory.
3. IT is he, in whom our Nature hath been carried successfully, and victoriously, through all the Oppositions that it is liable unto, and even Death it self. But the Glory hereof I shall speak unto distinctly in its proper place, which follows, and therefore shall here pass it by.