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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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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.
1. IT consisteth in the Exaltation of the Human Nature, as subsisting in the Divine Person above the whole Creation of God in Power, Dignity, Authority and Rule, ⟨p. 94⟩with all things that the Wisdom of God hath appointed to render the Glory of it illustrious. I have so largely insisted on the Explication and Confirmation of this Part of the present Glory of Christ, in the Exposition of Heb. 1. ver. 2, 3. that I have nothing more to add thereunto.
2. IT doth so in the Evidence given of the Infinite Love of God the Father unto him, and his delight in him, with the Eternal Approbation of his Discharge of the Office committed unto him. Hence he is said to sit at the right hand of God, or at the right hand of the Majesty on high. That the Glory and Dignity of Christ in his Exaltation is singular, the highest that can be given to a Creature incomprehensible; that he is with respect unto the Discharge of his Office, under the eternal Approbation of God: that as so gloriously exalted, he is proclaimed unto the whole Creation, are all contained in this Expression.