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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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BUT all this difficulty is solved by the Glory of Christ in this Condescension; for although in himself, or his own Divine Person, he was over all God blessed for ever, yet he humbled himself for the Salvation of the Church unto the Eternal Glory of God, to take our Nature upon him, and to be made Man: and those who cannot see a Divine Glory in his so doing, do neither know him, nor love him, nor believe in him, nor do any way belong unto him.
BUT all this difficulty is solved by the Glory of Christ in this Condescention; for although in himself, or his own Divine Person, he was over all God blessed for ever, yet he humbled himself for the Salvation of the Church unto the Eternal Glory of God, to take our Nature upon him, and to be made Man: and those who cannot see a Divine Glory in his so doing, do neither know him, nor love him, nor believe in him, nor do any way belong unto him.
SO is it with the Men of these Abominations. Because they cannot behold the Glory hereof, they deny the Foundation of our Religion, namely, the Divine Person of Christ. Seeing he would be made Man, he shall be esteemed by them no more than a Man. So do they reject that Glory of God, his Infinite Wisdom, Goodness and Grace, wherein he is more concerned than in the whole Creation. And they dig up the Root of all Evangelical Truths, which are nothing but Branches from it.
IT is true, and must be confessed, that herein it is that our Lord Jesus Christ is a stumbling Stone, and a Rock of Offence unto the World. If we should confess him only as a Prophet, a Man sent by God, there would not be much Contest about him, not Opposition unto him. The Mahometans do all acknowledge it, and the Jews would not long deny it; for their Hatred against him was, and is solely because he professed himself to be God, and as such was believed on in the World. And at this day partly through the Insinuation of the Socinians, and partly from the Efficacy of their own Blindness and Unbelief, Multitudes are willing to grant him to be a Prophet sent