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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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UNTO whom we betake our selves for Relief in any case, we have regard to nothing but their Will and their Power. If they have both, we are sure of Relief. And what shall we fear in the Will of Christ as unto this end? What will he not do for us? He who thus emptied and humbled himself, who so infinitely condescended from the Prerogative of his Glory in his Being and Self-sufficiency, in the Susception of our Nature for the Discharge of the Office of a Mediator on our Behalf; will he not relieve ⟨p. 72⟩us in all our Distresses? Will he not do all for us we stand in need of, that we may be eternally saved? Will he not be a Sanctuary unto us?
NOR have we hereon any Ground to fear his Power: For by this infinite Condescension to be a suffering Man, he lost nothing of his Power as God Omnipotent; nothing of his Infinite Wisdom or glorious Grace. He could still do, all that he could do as God from Eternity. If there be any thing therefore in a Coalescency of Infinite Power, with Infinite Condescension, to constitute a Sanctuary for distressed Sinners, it is all in Christ Jesus. And if we see him not glorious herein, it is because there is no Light of Faith in us.
NOR have we hereon any Ground to fear his Power: For by this infinite Condescention to be a suffering Man, he lost nothing of his Power as God Omnipotent; nothing of his Infinite Wisdom or glorious Grace. He could still do, all that he could do as God from Eternity. If there be any thing therefore in a Coalescency of Infinite Power, with Infinite Condescention, to constitute a Sanctuary for distressed Sinners, it is all in Christ Jesus. And if we see him not glorious herein, it is because there is no Light of Faith in us.
THIS then is the Rest wherewith we may cause the weary to rest, and this is the Refreshment. Herein is he an hiding place from the Wind, and a Covert from the Tempest, as Rivers of Water in a dry place, and as the shadow of a great Rock in a weary Land. Hereon he says, I have satiated the weary soul, and have refreshed every sorrowful soul. Under this Consideration it is, that in all Evangelical Promises and Invitations for coming to him, he is proposed unto distressed Sinners as their only Sanctuary.