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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 7: The Glory of Christ in his Exaltation, after the Accomplishment of the Work of Mediatio…
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THESE are the two Heads, whereunto all the Prophesies and Predictions concerning Jesus Christ under the Old Testament are referred, namely, his Sufferings, and the Glory that ensued thereon, 1 Pet. 1. 11. All the Prophets testified beforehand of the Sufferings of Christ, and the Glory that should follow. So when he himself opened the Scriptures unto his Disciples, he gave them this as the Sum of the Doctrine contained in them; Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his Glory, Luk. 24. 26. The same is frequently expressed elsewhere, Rom. 14. 9. Phil. 2. 5, 6, 7, 8.
So much as we know of Christ, his Sufferings and his Glory; so much do we understand of the Scripture, and no more.
THESE are the Two Heads of the Mediation of Christ and his Kingdom; and this is their Order which they communicate unto the Church; first Sufferings, and then Glory: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him, 2 Tim. 2. 12. They do but deceive themselves, who design any other Method of these things. Some would reign here in this World; and we may say with the Apostle, would you did reign, that we might reign with you. But the Members of the mystical Body must be conformed unto the Head. In him, Sufferings went before Glory; and so they must in them. The Order in the Kingdom of Satan and the Word, is contrary hereunto. First, the Good Things of this Life, and then Eternal Misery, is the Method of that Kingdom,