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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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WHEREFORE the Susception of our Nature for the Discharge of the Office of Mediation therein, was an Infinite ⟨p. 61⟩Condescension in the Son of God, wherein he is exceedingly Glorious in the Eyes of Believers.
WHEREFORE the Susception of our Nature for the Discharge of the Office of Mediation therein, was an Infinite ⟨p. 61⟩Condescention in the Son of God, wherein he is exceedingly Glorious in the Eyes of Believers.
AND I shall do these three Things. (1.) Show in general the Greatness of this Condescension. (2.) Declare the Especial Nature of it. And (3.) Take what view we are able of the Glory of Christ therein,
AND I shall do these three Things. (1.) Shew in general the Greatness of this Condescention. (2.) Declare the Especial Nature of it. And (3.) Take what view we are able of the Glory of Christ therein,
1. SUCH is the transcendent Excellency of the Divine Nature, that it is said of God, that he dwelleth on high, and humbleth himself to behold the things that are in Heaven, and in the Earth, Psal. 113. 5, 6. He condescends from the Prerogative of his Excellency, to behold, to look upon, to take notice of the most glorious Things in Heaven above, and the greatest Things in the Earth below. All his Respect unto the Creatures, the most glorious of them, is an Act of Infinite Condescension. And it is so on Two Accounts.