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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 10: The Glory of Christ in the Communication of himself unto Believers.
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.
CHAP. X. The Glory of Christ in the Communication of himself unto Believers.
ANOTHER instance of the Glory of Christ which we are to behold here by Faith, and hope that we shall do so by sight hereafter, consists in the Mysterious Communication of himself and all the Benefits of his Mediation, unto the souls of them that do believe, to their present happiness and future eternal Blessedness.
HEREBY he becomes theirs as they are his; which is the Life, the Glory and Consolation of the Church, Cant. 6. 3. Chap. 3. 16. Chap. 3. 10. He and all that he is being appropriated unto them by virtue of their Mystical Union; There is, there must be some Ground, formal Reason and Cause of this Relation between Christ and the Church, whereby he is theirs, and they are his; he is in them, and they in him; so as it is not between him and other Men in the World.
HEREBY he becomes theirs as they are his; which is the Life, the Glory and Consolation of the Church, Cant. 6. 3. Chap. 3. 16. Chap. 3. 10. He and all that he is being appropriated unto them by vertue of their Mystical Union; There is, there must be some Ground, formal Reason and Cause of this Relation between Christ and the Church, whereby he is theirs, and they are his; he is in them, and they in him; so as it is not between him and other Men in the World.