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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.
2. IT consists in mutual Interest. Those whose sins are punished in others, have such an Interest in them, as that their being so, is a punishment unto themselves. Therefore are such sinners threatened with the punishment and evils that shall befall their Posterity or Children for their sakes which is highly penal unto themselves, Numb. 14. 33. Your Children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms. The Punishment due to their sins is in part transferred unto their Children, and therein did the sting of their own Punishment also consist.
2. IT consists in mutual Interest. Those whose sins are punished in others, have such an Interest in them, as that their being so, is a punishment unto themselves. Therefore are such sinners threatned with the punishment and evils that shall befall their Posterity or Children for their sakes which is highly poenal unto themselves, Numb. 14. 33. Your Children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms. The Punishment due to their sins is in part transferred unto their Children, and therein did the sting of their own Punishment also consist.
3. THERE is a greater, a more Intimate Conjunction, a nearer Relation, an higher mutual Interest between Christ and the Church, than ever was or can be between any other Persons or Relations in the world, whereon it became just and equal in the sight of God, that he should suffer for us, and that what he did and suffered should be imputed unto us, which is farther to be cleared.
THERE neither is nor can be any more than a Threefold Conjunction between diverse, distinct Persons. The first is Natural, the second is Moral, whereunto I refer that which is Spiritual or Mystical; and the Third Federal, by virtue of mutual compact. In all these ways is Christ