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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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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.
WE might here look on him as under the Weight of the Wrath of God, and the Curse of the Law; taking on himself, and on his whole Soul, the utmost of Evil that God had ever threatened to Sin or Sinners; we might look on him in his Agony and bloody Sweat, in his strong Cries and Supplications, when he was sorrowful unto the Death, and began to be amazed, in apprehensions of the things that were coming on him; of that dreadful Trial which he was entering into: we might look upon him, conflicting with all the Powers of Darkness, the Rage and Madness ⟨p. 87⟩of Men; suffering in his Soul, his Body, his Name, his Reputation, his Goods, his Life; some of these Sufferings being immediate from God above, others from Devils and wicked Men, acting according to the Determinate Counsel of God: we might look on him praying, weeping, crying out, bleeding, dying, in all things making his Soul an Offering for sin: So was he taken from Prison, and Judgment, and who shall declare his Generation? for he was cut off from the Land of the Living, for the Transgression (saith God) of my People was he smitten, Isa. 53. 8. But these things I shall not insist on in particular, but leave them under such a Veil as may give us a Prospect into them, so far as to fill our Souls with holy Admiration.