Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

Name: Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
Author: John Owen

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.

John Owen 1616–1683London: printed by B.A., 1691

[22], 200 p. · 75k words · Wing O769A · ESTC R38162

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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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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.

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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, Job 11. 4, 5, 9. Rom. 11. 34, 35, 36.

BUT had we the Tongue of Men and Angels, we were not able in just measure to express the Glory of this Condescention. 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 carryeth 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,

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The book

Title as printed

Author

John Owen 1616–1683

Place

London

Printer

B.A.

Year

1691

Size

[22], 200 p.

Words

74,841

Catalogue

Wing O769A · ESTC R38162

Text

EEBO-TCP A53708

Passages

587

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. V. The Glory of Christ in his Love.