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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.
6. THIS Order of things was beautiful and comely. Hence were they all said to be exceeding good. For each of these Families had their own immediate, distinct Dependence on God. He was the immediate Head of them. There was no other common Head interposed between God and them. They were not an Head unto one another. ⟨p. 132⟩There were no Communications unto them, but what were immediate from God himself. And their Union among themselves was in this alone, that all their Obedience did meet and centre in God. So God made the Heavens and the Earth, and two distinct Families in them for himself.
6. THIS Order of things was beautiful and comely. Hence were they all said to be exceeding good. For each of these Families had their own immediate, distinct Dependance on God. He was the immediate Head of them. There was no other common Head interposed between God and them. They were not an Head unto one another. ⟨p. 132⟩There were no Communications unto them, but what were immediate from God himself. And their Union among themselves was in this alone, that all their Obedience did meet and center in God. So God made the Heavens and the Earth, and two distinct Families in them for himself.
7. THIS beautiful Order in it self, this Union between the two Families of God, was disturbed, broken, dissolved by the Entrance of Sin: For hereby part of the Family above, and the whole Family below, fell off from their Dependence on God, and ceasing to centre in him as their Head, they fell into Variance and Enmity among themselves. For the Centre of this Union and Order being removed and lost, nothing but Enmity and Confusion remained among them. Hereon to show that its Goodness was lost, God cursed the Earth and all that was in it; for it was put in Subjection unto Man, who was now fallen from him: Howbeit he cursed not the Heavens which were in Subjection unto the Angels, because some of them only left their Habitation; and the Habitation of the Residue was not to be cursed for their Sakes. But Mankind was wholly gone off from God.