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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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3. IT is also to be observed, That in the Assumption of our Nature to be his own, He did not change it into a thing Divine and Spiritual; but preserved it entire in all its Essential Properties and Actings. Hence it really did and suffered, was tried, tempted and forsaken as the same Nature in any other Man might do and be. That Nature as it was peculiarly his, and therefore he or his Person therein, was exposed unto all the temporary Evils which the same Nature is subject unto in any other Person.
THIS is a short general View of this incomprehensible Condescension of the Son of God, as it is described by the Apostle, Pill. 2. 5, 6, 7, 8. And this is that wherein in an especial manner we are to behold the Glory of Christ by Faith whilst we are in this World.
THIS is a short general View of this incomprehensible Condescention of the Son of God, as it is described by the Apostle, Pil. 2. 5, 6, 7, 8. And this is that wherein in an especial manner we are to behold the Glory of Christ by Faith whilst we are in this World.
BUT had we the Tongue of Men and Angels, we were not able in just measure to express the Glory of this Condescension. For it is the most ineffable Effect of the Divine Wisdom of the Father and of the Love of the Son, the highest Evidence of the Care of God towards Mankind. What can be equal unto it? What can be like it? It is the Glory of Christian Religion, and the animating Soul of all Evangelical Truth. This carrieth the Mystery of the Wisdom of God, above the Reason or Understanding of Men and Angels to be the Object of Faith and Admiration only. A Mystery it is that becomes the Greatness of God with his Infinite Distance from the whole Creation; which renders it unbecoming him that all his Ways and Works should be comprehensible by any of his Creatures,