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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 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, Job 11. 4, 5, 9. Rom. 11. 34, 35, 36.
HE who was eternally in the Form of God, that is, was essentially so, God by Nature, equally participant of the same Divine Nature with God the Father: God over all blessed for ever; who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in Heaven and Earth: he takes on him the Nature of Man, takes it to be his own; whereby he was no less truly a Man in time, than he was truly God from Eternity: And to increase the Wonder of his Mystery, because it was necessary unto the end he designed, he so humbled himself in this Assumption of our Nature, as to make himself of no Reputation in this World; yea, unto that Degree, that he said of himself, that he was a Worm and no Man, in comparison of them who were of any Esteem.