A53708:276
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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9. IT is hence evident, that this Glorious Love of Christ, doth not consist alone in the Eternal Actings of his divine Person, or the Divine Nature in his Person, such indeed is the Love of the Father namely, his Eternal Purpose for the communication of Grace and Glory, with his Acquiescence therein; but there is more in the Love of Christ. For when he exercised this Love, he was man also, and not God only. And in none of those Eternal Acts of Love could the Human Nature of Christ have any interest or concern; yet is the Love of the Man Christ Jesus, celebrated in the Scripture.
9. IT is hence evident, that this Glorious Love of Christ, doth not consist alone in the Eternal Actings of his divine Person, or the Divine Nature in his Person, such indeed is the Love of the Father namely, his Eternal Purpose for the communication of Grace and Glory, with his Acquiescency therein; but there is more in the Love of Christ. For when he exercised this Love, he was man also, and not God only. And in none of those Eternal Acts of Love could the Human Nature of Christ have any interest or concern; yet is the Love of the Man Christ Jesus, celebrated in the Scripture.
10. WHEREFORE this Love of Christ which we enquire after, is the Love of his Person; that is, which he in his own Person acts in and by his Distinct Natures according unto their Distinct Essential Properties. And the acts of love in these distinct Natures, are infinitely distinct and different; yet are they all acts of one and the same Person. So then, whether that Act of Love in Christ which we would at any time consider, be an Eternal Act of the Divine Nature in the Person of the Son of God; or whether it be an act of the Human performed in time by the Gracious Faculties and Powers of that Nature, it is still the Love of one and the self same Person, Christ Jesus.