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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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2. IT ariseth from his Infinite Self-Sufficiency unto all the Acts and Ends of his own Eternal Blessedness. What we have a Regard unto, what we respect and desire, it is that it may add unto our Satisfaction. So it is, so it must be with every Creature; no Creature is self-sufficient unto its own Blessedness. The humane Nature of Christ himself in Heaven is not so; it lives in God, and God in it, in a full dependence on God, and in receiving blessed and glorious Communications from him. No rational Creature, Angel or Man, can do, think, act any thing, but it is all to add to their Perfection and Satisfaction, they are not Self-sufficient. God alone wants nothing, stands in need of nothing, nothing can be added unto him, seeing he giveth unto all Life and Breath, and allthings, Act. 17. 25. The whole Creation in all its Excellency cannot contribute one Mite unto the Satisfaction or Blessedness of God. He hath it all in Infinite Perfection from himself and his own Nature; our Goodness extends not unto him; A Man cannot profit God, as he may profit his Neighbour. If thou sinnest, what dost thou against him? and if thy Transgressions are multiplied, what dost thou unto him? (God loseth nothing of his own Self-sufficiency and Blessedness therein, by all this) and if thou be righteous, what givest thou unto him, or what receiveth he at thy hand? Job 35. 6, 7, 8. And from hence also it follows that all Gods concernment in the Creation, is by an Act of Condescension.
2. IT ariseth from his Infinite Self-Sufficiency unto all the Acts and Ends of his own Eternal Blessedness. What we have a Regard unto, what we respect and desire, it is that it may add unto our Satisfaction. So it is, so it must be with every Creature; no Creature is self-sufficient unto its own Blessedness. The humane Nature of Christ himself in Heaven is not so; it lives in God, and God in it, in a full dependance on God, and in receiving blessed and glorious Communications from him. No rational Creature, Angel or Man, can do, think, act any thing, but it is all to add to their Perfection and Satisfaction, they are not Self-sufficient. God alone wants nothing, stands in need of nothing, nothing can be added unto him, seeing he giveth unto all Life and Breath, and althings, Act. 17. 25. The whole Creation in all its Excellency cannot contribute one Mite unto the Satisfaction or Blessedness of God. He hath it all in Infinite Perfection from himself and his own Nature; our Goodness extends not unto him; A Man cannot profit God, as he may profit his Neighbour. If thou sinnest, what dost thou against him? and if thy Transgressions are multiplied, what dost thou unto him? (God loseth nothing of his own Self-sufficiency and Blessedness therein, by all this) and if thou be righteous, what givest thou unto him, or what receiveth he at thy hand?