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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.
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.
2. AGAIN, The Glory of Christ is proposed unto us in what he suffered in the Discharge of the Office which he had undertaken. There belonged indeed unto his Office, Victory, Success, and Triumph with great Glory, Isa. 63. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. but there were Sufferings also required of him antecedently thereunto. Ought not Christ to suffer, and to enter into his Glory?
2. AGAIN, The Glory of Christ is proposed unto us in what he suffered in the Discharg of the Office which he had undertaken. There belonged indeed unto his Office, Victory, Success, and Triumph with great Glory, Isa. 63. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. but there were Sufferings also required of him antecedently thereunto. Ought not Christ to suffer, and to enter into his Glory?
BUT such were these Sufferings of Christ, as that in our Thoughts about them, our Minds quickly recoil in a Sense of their Insufficiency to conceive a Right of them: Never any one launched into this Ocean with his Meditations, but he quickly found himself unable to fathom the Depths of it: Nor shall I here undertake an Enquiry into them. I shall only point at this Spring of Glory, and leave it under a Veil.
BUT such were these Sufferings of Christ, as that in our Thoughts about them, our Minds quickly recoil in a Sense of their Insufficiency to conceive a Right of them: Never any one launched into this Ocean with his Meditations, but he quickly found himself unable to fathom the Depths of it: Nor shall I here undertake an Enquiry into them. I shall only point at this Spring of Glory, and leave it under a Vail.