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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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SECONDLY; It is required in us unto the same end, that we be ready and wiling to part with the flesh, wherewith we are clothed, with all things that are useful and desirable thereunto. The Alliance, the Relation, the Friendship, the Union, that are between the Soul and the Body, are the greatest the nearest, the firmest, that are or can be among mere created Beings. There is nothing like it, nothing equal unto it. The Union of Three persons in the one single Divine Nature, and the Union of two Natures in one person of Christ, are infinite, ineffable, and exempted from all comparison. But among created Beings, the Union of these two essential parts of the same Nature in one Person, is most excellent. Nor is any thing equal to it, or like it, found in any other Creatures. Those who among them have most of life, have either no Bodies, as Angels; or no Souls, but what perish with them, as all Brute creatures below.
SECONDLY; It is required in us unto the same end, that we be ready and wiling to part with the flesh, wherewith we are cloathed, with all things that are useful and desirable thereunto. The Alliance, the Relation, the Friendship, the Union, that are between the Soul and the Body, are the greatest the nearest, the firmest, that are or can be among meer created Beings. There is nothing like it, nothing equal unto it. The Union of Three persons in the one single Divine Nature, and the Union of two Natures in one person of Christ, are infinite, ineffable, and exempted from all comparison. But among created Beings, the Union of these two essential parts of the same Nature in one Person, is most excellent. Nor is any thing equal to it, or like it, found in any other Creatures. Those who among them have most of life, have either no Bodies, as Angels; or no Souls, but what perish with them, as all Brute creatures below.
ANGELS being pure immaterial Spirits, have nothing in them, nothing belonging unto their essence, that can dye. Beasts have nothing in them that can live when their Bodies dye. The Soul of a Beast cannot be preserved in a separate Condition, no not by an act of Almighty Power; for it is ⟨image 10⟩not; and that which is not, cannot live. It is nothing but the Body it self in an act of its material Powers.