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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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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, Isa. 57. 15. Thus saith the high and lofty one who inhabiteth Eternity, I dwell in the high and holy Place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble Spirit, to revive the Spirit of the humble, and to revive the ⟨p. 62⟩heart of the contrite ones. He is so the high and lofty one and so inhabiteth Eternity, or existeth in his own Eternal Being, that it is an Act of mere Grace in him, to take notice of things below; and therefore he doth i• in an especial manner of those whom the World doth most despise.
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 Ballance; 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 Condescention or humbling himself. So it is expressed, Isa. 57. 15. Thus saith the high and lofty one who inhabiteth Eternity, I dwell in the high and holy Place, with him also who is of a concrite and humble Spirit, to revive the Spirit of the humble, and to revive the