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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.
2. HE came into it on this design, and for this only end, namely, that in our Nature taken to be his own, he might do and suffer what was to be done and suffered for the Church: So it is added in the Text; That by death he might destroy him who had the power of death; and deliver them who for fear of death were subject to Bondage. This was the only end of his Conjunction in Nature with the Church: And this puts the case between him and it, at a vast distance from what is or may be between other Men.
2. HE came into it on this design, and for this only end, nemely, that in our Nature taken to be his own, he might do and suffer what was to be done and suffered for the Church: So it is added in the Text; That by death he might destroy him who had the power of death; and deliver them who for fear of death were subject to Bondage. This was the only end of his Conjunction in Nature with the Church: And this puts the case between him and it, at a vast distance from what is or may be between other Men.
IT is a foolish thing to argue, that because a mere participation of the same Nature among Men, is not sufficient to warrant the Righteousness of punishing one for another; that therefore the conjunction in the same Nature betwixt Christ and the Church, is not a sufficient and just foundation of his suffering for us, and in our Stead! For by an act of his own will and choice, he did partake of of our Nature, and that for this very end, that therein he might suffer for us, as the Holy Ghost expressly declares. Amongst others there neither is nor can be any thing of this Nature, and so no objection from what is equal or inequal amongst them, can arise against what is equal between Christ and the Church. And herein is he glorious and precious unto them that believe, as we shall see immediately.
IT is a foolish thing to argue, that because a mere participation of the same Nature among Men, is not sufficient to warrant the Righteousness of punishing one for another; that therefore the conjunction in the same Nature betwixt Christ and the Church, is not a sufficient and just foundation of his suffering for us, and in our Stead! For by an act of his own will and choice, he did partake of of our Nature, and that for this very end, that therein he might suffer for us, as the Holy Ghost expresly declares. Amongst others there neither is nor can be any thing of this Nature, and so no objection from what is equal or inequal amongst them, can arise against what is equal between Christ and the Church. And herein is he glorious and precious unto them that believe, as we shall see immediately.