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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.
BY these divine Communications in the production and preservation of the Creature, doth God manifest his Glory, ⟨p. 119⟩and by them alone in the way of Nature he doth so; and without them, although he would have been for ever essentially glorious, yet was it impossible that his Glory should be known unto any but himself. Wherefore on these divine Communications doth depend the whole Manifestation of the Glory of God. But this is far more eminent, though not in the outward Effects of it so visible in the new Creation, as we shall see.
BY these divine Communications in the production and preservation of the Creature, doth God manifest his Glory, ⟨p. 119⟩and by them alone in the way of Nature he doth so; and without them, although he would have been for ever essentially glorious, yet was it impossible that his Glory should be known unto any but himself. Wherefore on these divine Communications doth depend the whole Maninifestation of the Glory of God. But this is far more eminent, though not in the outward Effects of it so visible in the new Creation, as we shall see.
1. ALL Goodness, Grace, Life, Light, Mercy and Power, which are the Springs and Causes of the New Creation, are all originally in God, in the divine Nature, and that infinitely and essentially. In them is God eternally or essentially glorious, and the whole Design of the New Creation was to manifest his Glory in them by external Communications of them and from them.
2. THE first Communication of, and from these things, is made unto Christ as the Head of the Church. For in the first place, it pleased God that in him should all the fullness of these things dwell, so as that the whole New Creation might consist in him,