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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
FIRST of all, it is certain that all the Elect, the whole Church of God, fell in Adam, under the curse due to the transgression of the Law. It is so also, that in this curse, Death both Temporal and Eternal was contained. This curse none could undergo and be said. Nor was it consistent with the Righteousness, or Holiness, or Truth of God, that sin should go unpunished. Wherefore there was a necessity upon a supposition of Gods Decree to save his Church, of a Translation of punishment; namely, from them who had deserved it, and could not bear it, unto one who had not deserved it, but could bear it.
FIRST of all, it is certain that all the Elect, the whole Church of God, fell in Adam, under the curse due to the transgression of the Law. It is so also, that in this curse, Death both Temporal and Eternal was contained. This curse none could undergo and be sayed. Nor was it consistent with the Righteousness, or Holiness, or Truth of God, that sin should go unpunished. Wherefore there was a necessity upon a supposition of Gods Decree to save his Church, of a Translation of punishment; namely, from them who had deserved it, and could not bear it, unto one who had not deserved it, but could bear it.
A SUPPOSITION of this Translation of punishment by Divine dispensation, is the foundation of Christian Religion, yea of all supernatural Revelation contained in the Scripture. This was first intimated in the first promise; and afterwards explained and confirmed in all the institutions of the Old Testament. For although in the Sacrifices of the Law there was a revival of the greatest and most fundamental principal of the Law of Nature, namely, That God is to be worshipped with our best; yet the principal end and use of them, was to represent this translation of punishment from the offender unto another, who was to be a Sacrifice in his stead.
THE reasons of the equity hereof, and the unspeakable glory of Christ herein, is what we now enquire into. And I shall reduce what ought to be spoken hereunto, to the ensuing Heads.