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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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1. THIS is peculiarly that Glory which the Lord Christ prays that his Disciples may be where he is, to behold it. It is not solely so, as it is considered absolutely: but it is that, wherein all the other Parts of his Glory are made manifest. It is the Evidence, the Pledge, the Means of the Manifestation of them all. As unto all the Instances of his Glory before insisted on, there was a Veil drawn over them whilst he was in this World. Hence the most saw nothing of it, and the best saw it but obscurely. But in this Glory that Veil is taken off, whereby the whole Glory of his Person in it self, and in the Work of Mediation is most illustriously manifested. ⟨p. 91⟩When we shall immediately behold this Glory, we shall see him as he is. This is that Glory whereof the Father made grant unto him before the Foundation of the World, and wherewith he was actually invested upon his Ascension.
1. THIS is peculiarly that Glory which the Lord Christ prays that his Disciples may be where he is, to behold it. It is not solely so, as it is considered absolutely: but it is that, wherein all the other Parts of his Glory are made manifest. It is the Evidence, the Pledge, the Means of the Manifestation of them all. As unto all the Instances of his Glory before insisted on, there was a Vail drawn over them whilst he was in this World. Hence the most saw nothing of it, and the best saw it but obscurely. But in this Glory that Vail is taken off, whereby the whole Glory of his Person in it self, and in the Work of Mediation is most illustriously manifested. ⟨p. 91⟩When we shall immediately behold this Glory, we shall see him as he is. This is that Glory whereof the Father made grant unto him before the Foundation of the World, and wherewith he was actually invested upon his Ascention.
2. BY this Glory of Christ, I do not understand the Essential Glory of his Divine Nature; or his being absolutely in his own Person over all God blessed for ever: But the manifestation of this Glory in particular, after it had been veiled in this World under the Form of a Servant, belongs hereunto. The Divine Glory of Christ in his Person belongs not unto his Exaltation; but the Manifestation of it doth so. It was not given him by free Donation; but the Declaration of it unto the Church of Angels and Men after his Humiliation was so. He left it not whilst he was in this World; but the direct Evidence and Declaration of it he laid aside, until he was declared to be the Son of God with Power, by the Resurrection from the Dead.