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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 federal Conjunction between distinct Persons: And as this is various according unto the variety ⟨p. 113⟩of the Interests and Ends of them that enter into it; so that is most eminent, where one by the common consent of all that are concerned, undertakes to be a Sponsor or Surety for others, to do and answer what on their part is required of them for attaining the ends of the Covenant. So did the Lord Christ undertake to be Surety of the new Covenant in behalf of the Church, Heb. 7. 22. and thereon tendered himself unto God to do and suffer for them, in their stead, and on their behalf, whatever was required, that they might be sanctified and saved. These things I have treated of at large elsewhere, as containing a great part of the Mystery of the Wisdom of God in the Salvation of the Church. Here therefore I do only observe that this is that whereby the Mystical Conjunction that was between Christ and the Church, whereon it was meet just and equal in the sight of God, that what he did and suffered should be imputed unto us, is completed.
3. THERE is a foederal Conjunction between distinct Persons: And as this is various according unto the variety ⟨p. 113⟩of the Interests and Ends of them that enter into it; so that is most eminent, where one by the common consent of all that are concerned, undertakes to be a Sponsor or Surety for others, to do and answer what on their part is required of them for attaining the ends of the Covenant. So did the Lord Christ undertake to be Surety of the new Covenant in behalf of the Church, Heb. 7. 22. and thereon tendred himself unto God to do and suffer for them, in their stead, and on their behalf, whatever was required, that they might be sanctified and saved. These things I have treated of at large elsewhere, as containing a great part of the Mystery of the Wisdom of God in the Salvation of the Church. Here therefore I do only observe that this is that whereby the Mystical Conjunction that was between Christ and the Church, whereon it was meet just and equal in the sight of God, that what he did and suffered should be imputed unto us, is compleated.