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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 11: The Glory of Christ in the Recapitulation of all things in him.
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.
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. Moreover his Being and Goodness are the ⟨p. 129⟩same. The Goodness of Good is the Meetness of the Divine Being to be communicative of it self in its Effects. Hence this is the first Notion of the Divine Nature, Infinite Being and Goodness in a Nature intelligent and self-subsistent. So the Apostle declares it, He that cometh unto God must believe that he is, and that he is a Rewarder, Heb. 11. 6.
2. IN this State of Infinite, Eternal Being and Goodness antecedent unto any Act of Wisdom or Power without himself, to give Existence unto other Things, God was, and is eternally in himself all that he will be, all that he can be, unto Eternity. For where there is Infinite Being and Infinite Goodness, there is Infinite Blessedness and Happiness, whereunto nothing can be added. God is always the same. That is his Name [Greek or Hebrew]