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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 6: The Glory of Christ in the Discharge of his Mediatory Office.
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AS the Lord Christ was Glorious in the Susception of his Office: So was he also in its Discharge. An unseen Glory accompanied him in all that he did, in all that he suffered. Unseen it was unto the Eyes of the World, but not in his who alone can judge of it. Had Men seen it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. Yet to some of them it was made manifest. Hence they testified that in the Discharge of his Office, they beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, Joh. 1. 14. And that when others could see neither Form nor Comeliness in him that he should be desired, Psal. 53. 2. and so it is at this day. I shall only make some few Observations; first, on what he did in a way of Obedience, and then on what he suffered in the Discharge of his Office so undertaken by him.
AS the Lord Christ was Glorious in the Susception of his Office: So was he also in its Discharge. An unseen Glory accompanied him in all that he did, in all that he suffered. Unseen it was unto the Eyes of the World, but not in his who alone can judge of it. Had Men seen it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. Yet to some of them it was made manifest. Hence they testified that in the Discharge of his Office, they beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, Joh. 1. 14. And that when others could see neither Form nor Comliness in him that he should be desired, Psal. 53. 2. and so it is at this day. I shall only make some few Observations; first, on what he did in a way of Obedience, and then on what he suffered in the Discharge of his Office so undertaken by him.
1. WHAT he did, what Obedience he yielded unto the Law of God, in the Discharge of his Office (with respect whereunto he said, Lo, I come to do thy Will, O God, yea; thy Law is in my Heart) it was all on his own free choice or Election, and was resolved thereinto alone. It is our Duty to endeavour after Freedom, Willingness, and Cheerfulness in all our Obedience. Obedience hath its formal Nature from our Wills. So much as there is of our Wills, in what we do towards God, so much there is of Obedience, and no more. Howbeit, we are antecedently unto all Acts of our own Wills obliged unto all that is called Obedience. From the very Constitution of our Natures, we are necessarily