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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
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.
1. ALL Being, Power, Goodness, and Wisdom were originally, essentially, infinitely in God: And in them with the other Perfections of his Nature, consisted his Essential Glory.
2. THE Old Creation was a Communication of Being and Goodness by Almighty Power, directed by Infinite Wisdom, unto all things that were created for the manifestation of that Glory. This was the first Communication of God unto any thing without himself, and it was exceeding glorious, see Psal. 19. 1. Rom. 1. 21. And it was a curious Machine, framed in the subordination and dependency of one thing on another, without which they could not subsist, nor have a continuance of their Beings. All Creatures below live on the Earth, and the products of it; the Earth for its whole production depends on the Sun and other Heavenly Bodies, as God declares, Hos. 2. 21, 22. I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth, and the Earth shall hear the Corn, and the Wine, and the Oil, and they shall hear Jezreel. God hath given a subordination of things in a Concatenation of Causes whereon their Subsistence doth depend. Yet,