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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 9: The Glory of Christ in his intimate Conjunction with the Church.
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THE Enemies of the glory of Christ and of his Cross, do take this for granted, That there ought to be such a conjunction between the guilty person and him that suffers for him, as that in him the guilty person may be said in some sense to undergo the punishment himself. But then they affirm on the other hand, That there was no such conjunction between Christ and sinners, none at all; but that he was a man, as they were men; and otherwise, that he was at the greatest distance from them all, as it is possible for one man to be from another, Socin. de Servat. lib. 3. cap. 3. The falseness of this latter Assertion, and the gross ignorance of the Scripture under a pretence of subtlety, in them that make it, will evidently appear in our ensuing Discourse.
THE Enemies of the glory of Christ and of his Cross, do take this for granted, That there ought to be such a conjunction between the guilty person and him that suffers for him, as that in him the guilty person may be said in some sense to undergo the punishment himself. But then they affirm on the other hand, That there was no such conjunction between Christ and sinners, none at all; but that he was a man, as they were men; and otherwise, that he was at the greatest distance from them all, as it is possible for one man to be from another, Socin. de Servat. lib. 3. cap. 3. The falseness of this latter Assertion, and the gross ignorance of the Scripture under a pretence of subtilty, in them that make it, will evidently appear in our ensuing Discourse.
THE Apostle tells us 1 Pet. 2. 24. That in his own self he bare our sins in his own body on the tree; and chap. 3. 18. That he suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us unto God. But this seems somewhat strange unto Reason; where is the Justice, where is the Equity, that the just should suffer for the unjust? Where is Divine Righteousness herein? For it was an act of God, The Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all, Isa. 53. 6. The Equity hereof, with the grounds of it, must be here a little enquired into.