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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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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.
IT is with reference hereunto, that that great Promise concerning him is given unto the Church, Isa. 8. 14. He shall be for a Sanctuary (namely, unto all that believe, as it is expounded, 1 Pet. 2. 8.) but for a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them that stumble at the Word, being disobedient, whereunto also they were appointed.
HE is herein a Sanctuary, an assured Refuge unto all that betake themselves unto him. What is it that any Man in distress, who flies thereunto may look for in a Sanctuary? A Supply of all his Wants, a Deliverance from all his Fears, a Defence against all his Dangers, is proposed unto him therein. Such is the Lord Christ herein unto sin-distressed Souls; he is a Refuge unto us in all spiritual Distresses and Disconsolations, Heb. 6. 18. See the Exposition of the Place. Are we or any of us burdened with a Sense of Sin? Are we perplexed with Temptations? Are we bowed down under the Oppression of any Spiritual Adversary? Do we on any of these accounts walk in Darkness and have no Light? One View of the Glory of Christ herein is able to support us and relieve us.