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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…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
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 encrease 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.
WE speak of these things in a poor, low, broken manner. We teach them as they are revealed in the Scripture. We labour by Faith to adhere unto them as revealed. But when we come into a steady, direct View and Consideration of the thing it self, our Minds fail, our ⟨p. 71⟩Hearts tremble, and we can find no rest, but in an Holy Admiration of what we cannot comprehend. Here we are at a loss, and know that we shall be so whilst we are in this World: But all the ineffable Fruits and Benefits of this Truth are communicated unto them that do believe.