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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…
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.
IN the Susception of this Office we may behold the Glory of Christ. (1.) In his Condescension. (2.) In his Love.
IN the Susception of this Office we may behold the Glory of Christ. (1.) In his Condescention. (2.) In his Love.
1. WE may behold his Glory in his Infinite Condescension to take this Office on him, and our Nature to be his own unto that end. It did not befall him by Lot or Chance; it was not imposed on him against his Will; it belonged not unto him by any Necessity of Nature or Condition, he stood not in need of it; it was no addition unto him; but of his own Mind and Accord he graciously condescended unto the Susception and Discharge of it.
1. WE may behold his Glory in his Infinite Condescention to take this Office on him, and our Nature to be his own unto that end. It did not befall him by Lot or Chance; it was not imposed on him against his Will; it belonged not unto him by any Necessity of Nature or Condition, he stood not in need of it; it was no addition unto him; but of his own Mind and Accord he graciously condescended unto the Susception and Discharge of it.
So the Apostle expresseth it, Phil. 2. 5, 6, 7, 8. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but made himself of no reputation, and took on himself the form of a Servant, and was made in the likeness of Men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross.