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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 4: The Glory of Christ in his Susception of the Office of a Mediator. First in his Condesc…
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AND as for Creatures, there was none in Heaven or Earth that was meet to undertake this Office. For if one Man sin against another, the Judge shall judge herein; but if a Man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him? 1 Sam. 2. 25. There is not any days man betwixt us to lay his hand upon us both, Job 9. 33.
IN this State of Things the Lord Christ as the Son of God said, Lo I come to do thy Will, O God; sacrifice and burnt offerings thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me, and Lo I come to do thy Will, Heb. 10. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. By the Assumption of our Nature into Union with himself, in his one Divine Person he became every way meet for the Discharge of this Office, and undertakes it accordingly.
THAT which we enquire after at present, is the Glory of Christ herein, and how we may behold that ⟨p. 60⟩Glory. And there are three things wherein we may take a prospect of it.