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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.
AND 1. He gives and communicates unto them his holy Spirit; the holy Spirit as peculiarly his, as granted unto him of the Father, as inhabiting in him in all fullness. This Spirit abiding originally as to his Person, and immeasurably as unto his Effects and Operations in himself, he gives unto all Believers to inhabit and abide in them also, Joh. 14. 14. 20. 1 Cor. 6. 16, 17. Rom. 8. 8. Hence follows an ineffable Union between him and them. For as in his Incarnation he took our Nature into personal Union with his own; so herein he takes our Persons into a Mystical Union with himself. Hereby he becomes ours, and we are his.
AND 1. He gives and communicates unto them his holy Spirit; the holy Spirit as peculiarly his, as granted unto him of the Father, as inhabiting in him in all fulness. This Spirit abiding originally as to his Person, and immeasurably as unto his Effects and Operations in himself, he gives unto all Believers to inhabit and abide in them also, Joh. 14. 14. 20. 1 Cor. 6. 16, 17. Rom. 8. 8. Hence follows an ineffable Union between him and them. For as in his Incarnation he took our Nature into personal Union with his own; so herein he takes our Persons into a Mystical Union with himself. Hereby he becomes ours, and we are his.
AND herein is he unspeakably glorious. For this Mystery of the Inhabitation of the same Spirit in him as the Head, and the Church as his Body, animating the whole, is a transcendent Effect of Divine Wisdom. There is nothing of this Nature in the whole Creation besides; no such Union, no such mutual Communication. The strictest Unions and Relations in Nature are but Shadows of it.