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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
THIS is the Eternal Spring which is derived unto the Church, through the Mediation of Christ. Wherefore that which put all the Design of this Eternal Love of the ⟨p. 77⟩Father into Execution, and wrought out the Accomplishment of it, was the Love of the Son, which we enquire after; and Light may be given unto it in the ensuing Observations.
1. THE whole Number or Society of the Elect, were Creatures made in the Image of God, and thereby in a State of Love with him. All that they were, had, or hoped for, were effects of Divine Goodness and Love. And the Life of their Souls was Love unto God. And a blessed State it was, preparatory for the Eternal Life of Love in Heaven.
2. FROM this State they fell by sin, into a state of Enmity with God; which is comprehensive of all Miseries, Temporal and Eternal.
3. NOTWITHSTANDING this woeful Catastrophe of our first state, yet our Nature on many Accounts was recoverable unto the Enjoyment of God, as I have at large elsewhere declared.