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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 11: The Glory of Christ in the Recapitulation of all things in him.
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HE hath abounded towards us in all Wisdom and Prudence; having made known unto us the Mystery of his Will according unto his good Pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself. That in the Dispensation of the fullness of time, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in the Heavens, and which are on Earth, even in him, Ephes. 1. 8, 9, 10.
HE hath abounded towards us in all Wisdom and Prudence; having made known unto us the Mystery of his Will according unto his good Pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself. That in the Dispensation of the fulness of time, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in the Heavens, and which are on Earth, even in him, Ephes. 1. 8, 9, 10.
FOR the Discovery of the Mind of the Holy Ghost in these Words, so far as I am at present concerned, namely, as unto the Representation of the Glory of Christ in them, sundry brief Observations must be premised; and in them it will be necessary that we briefly declare the Original of all these things in Heaven and Earth, their Primitive Order, the Confusion that ensued thereon, with their Restitution in Christ, and his Glory thereby.
GOD alone hath all being in him. Hence he gives himself that Name, I AM, Exod. 3. 14. He was eternally All; when all things else that ever were, or now are, or shall be, were nothing. And when they are, they are no otherwise, but as they are of him, and from him, and to him, Rom. 11. 36