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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.
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,
4. IN this mutual Dependency on, and Supplies unto one another, they all depend on, and are influenced from God himself, the Eternal Fountain of Being, Power, and Goodness. He hears the Heavens; and in the Continuation of this Order by constant Divine Communication of Being, Goodness and Power, unto all Things, God is no less glorified than in the first Creation of them, Act. 14. 15, 16, 17. Chap. 17. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29.
5. THIS Glory of God is visible in the Matter of it, and is obvious unto the Reason of Mankind; for from his Works of Creation and Providence they may learn his Eternal Power and Godhead, wherein he is essentially glorious.