Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

Name: Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
Author: John Owen

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.

John Owen 1616–1683London: printed by B.A., 1691

[22], 200 p. · 75k words · Wing O769A · ESTC R38162

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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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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.

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 vailed 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.

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WHEN the Sun is under a total Eclipse, he loseth nothing of his Native Beauty, Light, and Glory. He is still the same that he was from the beginning; a great Light to rule the Day. To us he appears as a dark useless Meteor: but when he comes by his course to free himself from the Lunar Interposition unto his proper Aspect towards us, he manifests again his Native Light and Glory. So was it with the Divine Nature of Christ as we have before declared. He veiled the Glory of it by the Interposition of the Flesh, or the Assumption of our Nature to be his own, with this Addition, that therein he took on him the Form of a Servant, of a Person of mean and low Degree. But this temporary Eclipse being past and over, it now shines forth in its Infinite Lustre and Beauty, which belongs unto the present Exaltation of his Person. And when those who beheld him here as a poor, sorrowful, persecuted Man, dying on the Cross, came to see him

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The book

Title as printed

Author

John Owen 1616–1683

Place

London

Printer

B.A.

Year

1691

Size

[22], 200 p.

Words

74,841

Catalogue

Wing O769A · ESTC R38162

Text

EEBO-TCP A53708

Passages

587

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. VIII. Representations of the Glory of Christ under the Old Testament.