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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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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.
1. WHOSE Love it is; namely, of the divine Person of the Son of God. He is expressly called God, with respect unto the Exercise of this Love; that we may always consider whose it is, 1 Job. 3. 16. Hereby we perceive the Love of God, because he laid down his Life for us.
1. WHOSE Love it is; namely, of the divine Person of the Son of God. He is expresly called God, with respect unto the Exercise of this Love; that we may always consider whose it is, 1 Job. 3. 16. Hereby we perceive the Love of God, because he laid down his Life for us.
2. BY what Ways and Means this wonderful Love of the Son of God, doth act it self; namely, in the divine Nature, by Eternal Acts of Wisdom, Goodness and Grace ⟨p. 82⟩proper thereunto; and in the humane by Temporary Acts of Pity or Compassion, with all the Fruits of them in doing and suffering for us, see Ephes. 3. 19. Heb. 2. 14, 15. Rev. 1. 5.
3. WHAT is the Freedom of it as unto any desert on our Part, 1 Joh. 4. 10. It was Hatred not Love that we in our selves deserved, which is a Consideration suited to fill the Soul with self-abasement, the best of Frames in the contemplation of the Glory of Christ.