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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 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, Col. 1. 17, 18, 19. And this was the first Egress of divine Wisdom for the Manifestation of the Glory of God in these holy Properties of his Nature. For,
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 fulness of these things dwell, so as that the whole New Creation might consist in him, Col. 1. 17, 18, 19. And this was the first Egress of divine Wisdom for the Manifestation of the Glory of God in these holy Properties of his Nature. For,
3. THIS Communication was made unto him as a Repository and Treasury of all that Goodness, Grace, Life, Light, Power and Mercy which were necessary for the Constitution and Preservation of the New Creation. They were to be laid up in him, to be hid in him, to dwell in him; and from him to be communicated unto the whole Mystical Body designed unto him, that is the Church. And this is the first Emanation of divine Power and Wisdom for the Manifestation of his Glory in the New Creation. This Constitution of Christ as the Head of it, and the Treasuring up in him, all that was necessary for its Production and Preservation, wherein the Church is chosen ⟨p. 120⟩and preordained in him unto Grace and Glory, is the Spring and Fountain of divine Glory in the Communications that ensue thereon.