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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.
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 ⟨p. 109⟩in Conjunction with his Church, and in every in one of them, in a way Singular and Peculiar.
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 Foederal, by vertue of mutual compact. In all these ways is Christ ⟨p. 109⟩in Conjunction with his Church, and in every in one of them, in a way Singular and Peculiar.
1. THE first Conjunction of distinct Persons is Natural. God hath made all Mankind of one blood, Act. 17. 26. Whereby there is a Cognation and Alliance between them all. Hence every Man, is every Mans Brother or Neighbour, unto whom loving kindness is to be showed,