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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 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.
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 Condescention. And it is so on Two Accounts.
1. BECAUSE of the Infinite Distance that is between his Essence, Nature, or Being, and that of the Creatures. Hence all Nations before him, are as the Drop of a Bucket, and are counted as the small Dust of the Balance; yea, that they are as nothing, that they are accounted unto him less than nothing, and vanity. All Being is essentially in him, and in comparison thereunto, all other things are as nothing. And there are no Measures, there is no Proportion between infinite being and nothing; Nothing that should induce a Regard from the one unto the other. Wherefore the Infinite, Essential Greatness of the Nature of God, with its Infinite Distance, from the Nature of all Creatures thereby, causeth all his Dealings with them to be in the way of Condescension or humbling himself. So it is expressed,