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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.
I SHALL very briefly enquire into the Causes, Ways and Means of this Mysterious Communication whereby he is made to be ours, to be in us, to dwell with us, and all the benefits of his Mediation to belong unto us: For, as was said, it is evident that he doth not thus communicate himself unto all by a natural Necessity, as the Sun gives light equally unto the whole World; nor is he present ⟨p. 117⟩withal by an Ubiquity of his humane Nature; nor as some dream, by a Diffusion of his rational Soul into all; nor doth he become ours by a carnal eating of him in the Sacrament; but this Mystery proceeds from, and depends on other Reasons and Causes, as we shall briefly declare.
I SHALL very briefly enquire into the Causes, Ways and Means of this Mysterious Communication whereby he is made to be ours, to be in us, to dwell with us, and all the benefits of his Mediation to belong unto us: For, as was said, it is evident that he doth not thus communicate himself unto all by a natural Necessity, as the Sun gives light equally unto the whole World; nor is he present ⟨p. 117⟩withall by an Ubiquity of his humane Nature; nor as some dream, by a Diffusion of his rational Soul into all; nor doth he become ours by a carnal eating of him in the Sacrament; but this Mystery proceeds from, and depends on other Reasons and Causes, as we shall briefly declare.
BUT yet before I proceed to declare the way and manner whereby Christ communicateth himself unto the Church, I must premise something of Divine Communications in General, and their Glory. And I shall do this by touching a little on the harmony and Correspondency that is between the Old Creation and the New.