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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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It was an Act of inexpressible Love in him that he assumed our Nature, Heb. 2. 14, 17. But it was an act in and of his Divine Nature only: For it was antecedent unto the existence of his Human Nature, which could not therefore concur therein. His laying down his life for ⟨p. 80⟩us, was an act of inconceivable Love, 1 John 8. 16. Yet was it only an act of the Human Nature wherein he offered himself and died. But both the one and the other were Acts of his Divine Person; whence it is said that God laid down his life for us, and purchased the Church with his own Blood.
THIS is that Love of Christ wherein he is glorious, and wherein we are by Faith to behold his Glory. A great part of the Blessedness of the Saints in Heaven, and their Triumph therein, consists in their beholding of this Glory of Christ, in their thankful contemplation of the Fruits of it, see Rev. 5. 9, 10. &c.
THE illustrious Brightness wherewith this Glory shines in Heaven, the All satisfying Sweetness which the view of it gives unto the Souls of the Saints there Possessed of Glory, are not by us conceivable nor to be expressed. Here this love passeth knowledge, there we shall comprehend the Dimensions of it. Yet even here, if we are not slothful and carnal, we may have a refreshing prospect of it; and where Comprehension fails, let Admiration take place.