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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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HAVING premised these things in general concerning the Glory of Divine Communications, I shall proceed to declare in particular, the Grounds and Way whereby the Lord Christ communicates himself, and therewithal all the Benefits of his Mediation, unto them that do believe, as it was before proposed.
WE on our part are said herein to receive him, and that by Faith, John 1. 11, 12. Now where he is received by us, he must be tendered, given, granted, or communicated unto us. And this he is by some divine Acts of the Father, and some of his own.
WE on our part are said herein to receive him, and that by Faith, John 1. 11, 12. Now where he is received by us, he must be tendred, given, granted, or communicated unto us. And this he is by some divine Acts of the Father, and some of his own.
THE Foundation of the whole is laid in a Sovereign Act of the Will, the Pleasure, the Grace of the Father. And this is the Order and Method of all divine Operations in the Way and Work of Grace. They originally proceed all from him; and having effected their Ends, do return, rest, and centre in him again, see Ephes. 1. 4, 5, 6. Wherefore that Christ is made ours, that he is communicated unto us, is originally from the free Act, Grant and Donation of the Father, 1 Cor. 1. 30. Rom. 5. 15, 16, 17. And hereunto sundry things do concur. As (1.) His Eternal Purpose which he purposed in himself to glorify his Grace in all his Elect, by this Communication of Christ, and the Benefits of his Mediation unto them, which the Apostle declares at large,