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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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2. THIS Nature of the Man Christ Jesus, is filled with all the Divine Graces and Perfections whereof a limited created Nature is capable. It is not Deified, it is not made a God; it doth not in Heaven coalesce into one Nature with the Divine by a Composition of them; It hath not any Essential Property of the Deity communicated unto it, so as subjectively to reside in it; It is not made Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent: But it is exalted in a Fullness of all Divine Perfection ineffably above the Glory of Angels and Men. It is incomprehensibly nearer God than they all; hath Communications from God, in glorious Light, Love, and Power, ineffably above them all. But it is still a Creature.
2. THIS Nature of the Man Christ Jesus, is filled with all the Divine Graces and Perfections whereof a limited created Nature is capable. It is not Deified, it is not made a God; it doth not in Heaven coalesce into one Nature with the Divine by a Composition of them; It hath not any Estential Property of the Deity communicated unto it, so as subjectively to reside in it; It is not made Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent: But it is exalted in a Fulness of all Divine Perfection ineffably above the Glory of Angels and Men. It is incomprehensibly nearer God than they all; hath Communications from God, in glorious Light, Love, and Power, ineffably above them all. But it is still a Creature.
FOR the Substance of this Glory of the Human Nature of Christ, Believers shall be made Partakers of it; for when we see him as he is, we shall be like him: but as unto the Degrees and Measures of it, his Glory is above all that we can be made Partakers of: There is one Glory of the Sun, another of the Moon and Stars, and one Star differeth from another in Glory, As the Apostle speaks, 1 Cor. 15. 45. And if there be a difference in Glory among the Stars themselves as to some degrees of the same Glory: How much more is there between the Glory of the Sun, and that of any Star whatever? Such is the difference that is and will be unto Eternity between the Human Nature of Christ, and what glorified Believers do attain unto. But yet this is not that properly wherein the Glory of Christ in his Exaltation after his Humiliation and Death, doth consist. The Things that belong unto it may be reduced unto the ensuing Heads.