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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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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.
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 Fulness doth originally dwell. On the Assumption of human Nature into personal Union with the Son of God, all Fulness dwells in him bodily, Col. 2. 9. And thereon receiving the Spirit in all Fulness, 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.