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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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HOW glorious then is the Condescension of the Son of God in his Susception, of the Office of Mediation? For if such ⟨p. 63⟩be the Perfection of the Divine Nature, and its distance so absolutely Infinite from the whole Creation, and if such be his Self-sufficiency unto his own Eternal Blessedness, as that nothing can be taken from him, nothing added unto him, so that every Regard in him unto any of the Creatures, is an Act of Self-Humiliation and Condescension from the Prerogative of his Being and State; what Heart can conceive, what Tongue can express the Glory of that Condescension in the Son of God, whereby he took our Nature upon him, took it to be his own, in order unto a discharge of the Office of Mediation on our Behalf?
HOW glorious then is the Condescention of the Son of God in his Susception, of the Office of Mediation? For if such ⟨p. 63⟩be the Perfection of the Divine Nature, and its distance so absolutely Infinite from the whole Creation, and if such be his Self-sufficiency unto his own Eternal Blessedness, as that nothing can be taken from him, nothing added unto him, so that every Regard in him unto any of the Creatures, is an Act of Self-Humiliation and Condescention from the Prerogative of his Being and State; what Heart can conceive, what Tongue can express the Glory of that Condescention in the Son of God, whereby he took our Nature upon him, took it to be his own, in order unto a discharge of the Office of Mediation on our Behalf?
BUT that we may the better behold the Glory of Christ herein, we may briefly consider the Especial Nature of this Condescension, and wherein it doth consist.
BUT that we may the better behold the Glory of Christ herein, we may briefly consider the Especial Nature of this Condescention, and wherein it doth consist.