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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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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.
HEREIN he is a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence unto the unbelieving and disobedient, who stumble at the Word. They cannot, they will not see the Glory of this Condescension, they neither desire nor labour so to do; yea, they hate it and despise it. Christ in it is a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence unto them. Wherefore they choose rather utterly to deny his Divine Person, than allow that he did thus abase himself for our Sakes. Rather than they will own this Glory, they will allow him no Glory. A Man they say he was, and no more, and this was his Glory. This is that Principle of Darkness and Unbelief, which works effectually at this day in the Minds of many. They think it an absurd thing, as the