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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.
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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.
4. THIS Communication unto Christ is (1.) Unto his Person; and then (2.) With respect unto this Office. It is in the Person of Christ that all Fullness doth originally dwell. On the Assumption of human Nature into personal Union with the Son of God, all Fullness dwells in him bodily, Col. 2. 9. And thereon receiving the Spirit in all Fullness, and not by Measure, all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge were hid in him, Col. 2. 3. and he was filled with the unsearchable Riches of Divine Grace, Ephes. 3. 8, 9, 10, 11. And the Office of Christ is nothing but the way appointed in the Wisdom of God, for the Communication of the Treasures of Grace, which were communicated unto his Person. This is the end of the whole Office of Christ in all the parts of it, as he is a Priest, a Prophet and a King. They are, I say, nothing but the Ways appointed by infinite Wisdom for the Communication of the Grace laid up in his Person unto the Church. The transcendent Glory hereof, we have in some weak measure enquired into.