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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 in this interposition of Christ, in this Translation of punishment from the Church unto him, by virtue of his Conjunction therewith, there is a blessed harmony between the Righteousness of the God, and the forgiveness of sins; the exemplification whereof, is his Eternal Glory. O Blessed Change! O Sweet permutation; as Justine Martyr speaks.
BUT in this interposition of Christ, in this Translation of punishment from the Church unto him, by vertue of his Conjunction therewith, there is a blessed harmony between the Righteousness of the God, and the forgiveness of sins; the exemplification whereof, is his Eternal Glory. O Blessed Change! O Sweet permutation; as Justine Martyr speaks.
BY Virtue of his Union with the Church, which of his own accord he entered into, and his undertaking therein to answer for it in the sight of God, it was a righteous thing with God, to lay the punishment of all our sins upon him, so as that he might freely and graciously pardon them all, to the Honour and Exaltation of his Justice, as well as of his Grace and Mercy, Rom. 3. 24, 25, 26.
BY Vertue of his Union with the Church, which of his own accord he entred into, and his undertaking therein to answer for it in the sight of God, it was a righteous thing with God, to lay the punishment of all our sins upon him, so as that he might freely and graciously pardon them all, to the Honour and Exaltation of his Justice, as well as of his Grace and Mercy, Rom. 3. 24, 25, 26.
HEREIN is he Glorious in the sight of God, Angels and Men. In him there is at the same time, in the same Divine Actings, a Glorious Resplendency of Justice and Mercy; of the one in punishing; of the other in pardoning. The appearing inconsistency between the Righteousness of God and the Salvation of sinners, wherewith the Consciences of convinced Persons are exercised and terrified, and which is the Rock at which most of them split