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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.
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.
6. BUT by this divine Communication God did not intend only to glorify himself in the essential Properties of his Nature, but his Existence also in Three Persons, of Father, Son and Spirit. For although the whole Creation in its first framing, and in its Perfection, was and is by an Emanation of Power and Goodness from the Divine Nature in the Person of the Father, as he is the Fountain of the Trinity, whence he is said peculiarly to be the Creator of all things; yet the immediate Operation in the Creation was from the Son, the Power and Wisdom of the Father, Joh. 1. 1, 2, 3. Col. 1. 16. Heb. 1. 3. And as upon the first Production of the Mass of the Creation, it was under the especial care of the Spirit of God to preserve and cherish it, unto the production of all distinct sorts of Creatures, Gen. 1. 2. So in the Continuance of the whole there is an especial Operation of the same Spirit in all things. Nothing can subsist one Moment by virtue of the Dependence which all things have on one another, without a continual Emanation of Power from him, see Psal. 104. 29, 30.
6. BUT by this divine Communication God did not intend only to glorifie himself in the essential Properties of his Nature, but his Existence also in Three Persons, of Father, Son and Spirit. For although the whole Creation in its first framing, and in its Perfection, was and is by an Emanation of Power and Goodness from the Divine Nature in the Person of the Father, as he is the Fountain of the Trinity, whence he is said peculiarly to be the Creator of all things; yet the immediate Operation in the Creation was from the Son, the Power and Wisdom of the Father,