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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
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.
1. IT is not contrary unto the nature of Divine Justice; it doth not interfere with the principles of natural light in man, that in sundry cases some persons should suffer punishment for the sins and offences of others.
I SHALL at present give this Assertion no other confirmation, but only that God hath often done so, who will, who can do no iniquity.