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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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3. THIS Being and Goodness of God by his own Will and Pleasure, acting themselves in Infinite Wisdom and Power, produced the Creation of all things. Herein he communicated a finite, limited, dependent Being and Goodness unto other things without himself. For all Being and Goodness being, as was said, in him alone, it was necessary that the first outward Work and Effect of the Divine Nature must be the Communication of Being and Goodness into other things. Wherefore as when he had given unto every thing its Being out of nothing by the Word of his Power, saying, Let them be, and they were; so it is said, that he looked on all that he had made, and behold, they were exceeding good, Gen. 1. last. Being and Goodness must be the first outward Effects of the Divine Nature, which being wrought by Infinite Power and Wisdom, do represent unto us the Glory of God in the Creation of all things. Infinite Being in Self-subsistence, which is necessary in the first Cause and Spring of all things; Infinite Goodness to communicate the Effect of this Being unto that which was not, and Infinite Wisdom and Power in that Communication, are gloriously manifested therein.
4. IN this State, all things that were made, depended immediately on God himself, without the Interposition of any other Head of Influence or Rule. They had the Continuance of their Being and its Preservation, from the immediate Actings of these Properties of the Divine Nature whereby they were made; and their Dependence on God was by Virtue of that Law, which was implanted on the Principles and Powers of their several Natures by God himself.
4. IN this State, all things that were made, depended immediately on God himself, without the Interposition of any other Head of Influence or Rule. They had the Continuance of their Being and its Preservation, from the immediate Actings of these Properties of the Divine Nature whereby they were made; and their Dependance on God was by Vertue of that Law, which was implanted on the Principles and Powers of their several Natures by God himself.