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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.
BUT yet it will be said, that this Mystical Conjunction of Christ with his Church is consequential unto what he did and suffered for it: for it ensues on the conversion of Men unto him. For it is by Faith that we are implanted into him. Until that be actually wrought in us, we have no Mystical Conjunction with him. He is not an Head, or an Husband unto unregenerate, unsanctified unbelievers whilst they continue so to be: And such was the state of the whole Church when Christ suffered for us, Rom. 5. 8. Eph. 2. 5. There was therefore no such Mystical Conjunction between him and the Church, as to render it meet and ⟨p. 112⟩equal that he should suffer in its stead. Wherefore the Church is the Effect of the Work of the Redemption, that which rose out of it, which was made and constituted by it; and cannot be so the Object of it, as that which was to be redeemed by virtue of an antecedent Conjunction with it. I answer,
BUT yet it will be said, that this Mystical Conjunction of Christ with his Church is consequential unto what he did and suffered for it: for it ensues on the conversion of Men unto him. For it is by Faith that we are implanted into him. Until that be actually wrought in us, we have no Mystical Conjunction with him. He is not an Head, or an Huusband unto unregenerate, unsanctified unbelievers whilst they continue so to be: And such was the state of the whole Church when Christ suffered for us, Rom. 5. 8. Eph. 2. 5. There was therefore no such Mystical Conjunction between him and the Church, as to render it meet and ⟨p. 112⟩equal that he should suffer in its stead. Wherefore the Church is the Effect of the Work of the Redemption, that which rose out of it, which was made and constituted by it; and cannot be so the Object of it, as that which was to be redeemed by vertue of an antecedent Conjunction with it. I answer,