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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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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, Luk. 16. 25.
THESE are the two Springs of the Salvation of the Church; the two anointed ones that stand before the Lord of the whole Earth; from which all the golden Oil whereby the Church is dedicated unto God and sanctified doth flow. This Glory of Christ in his Exaltation which followed on his Sufferings, is that which we now enquire into. And we shall state our Apprehensions of it in the ensuing Observations.
THESE are the two Springs of the Salvation of the Church; the two anointed ones that stand before the Lord of the whole Earth; from which all the golden Oyl whereby the Church is dedicated unto God and sanctified doth flow. This Glory of Christ in his Exaltation which followed on his Sufferings, is that which we now enquire into. And we shall state our Apprehensions of it in the ensuing Observations.