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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.
6. THIS therefore is herein, the glorious Order of divine Communications. From the infinite eternal Spring of Wisdom, Grace, Goodness, and Love in the Father, all the Effects whereof unto his end were treasured up in the Person and Mediation of the Son; the holy Spirit unto whom the actual Application of them is committed, communicates Life, Light, Power, Grace and Mercy unto all that are designed parts of the New Creation. Hereon doth God glorify both the essential Properties of his Nature, his infinite Wisdom, Power, Goodness and Grace, as the only eternal Spring of all these things; and also his ineffable glorious Existence in three Persons, by the Order of the Communication of these things unto the Church, which are originally from his Nature. And herein is the glorious Truth of the Blessed Trinity, which by some is opposed, by some neglected, by most looked on as that which is so much above them, as that it doth not belong unto them, made precious unto them that believe, and ⟨p. 122⟩becomes the Foundation of their Faith and Hope. In a View of the glorious Order of those divine Communications, we are in a steady Contemplation of the ineffable Glory of the Existence of the Nature of God in the Three distinct Persons of Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
6. THIS therefore is herein, the glorious Order of divine Communications. From the infinite eternal Spring of Wisdom, Grace, Goodness, and Love in the Father, all the Effects whereof unto his end were treasured up in the Person and Mediation of the Son; the holy Spirit unto whom the actual Application of them is committed, communicates Life, Light, Power, Grace and Mercy unto all that are designed parts of the New Creation. Hereon doth God glorifie both the essential Properties of his Nature, his infinite Wisdom, Power, Goodness and Grace, as the only eternal Spring of all these things; and also his ineffable glorious Existence in three Persons, by the Order of the Communication of these things unto the Church, which are originally from his Nature. And herein is the glorious Truth of the Blessed Trinity, which by some is opposed, by some neglected, by most looked on as that which is so much above them, as that it doth not belong unto them, made precious unto them that believe, and ⟨p. 122⟩becomes the Foundation of their Faith and Hope. In a View of the glorious Order of those divine Communications, we are in a steady Contemplation of the ineffable Glory of the Existence of the Nature of God in the Three distinct Persons of Father, Son and Holy Ghost.