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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.
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.
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 Dependance on God, and ceasing to center in him as their Head, they fell into Variance and Enmity among themselves. For the Center of this Union and Order being removed and lost, nothing but Enmity and Confusion remained among them. Hereon to shew 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.
8. THE Angels that sinned, God utterly rejected for ever as an Example of his Severity; the whole Race of Mankind he would not utterly cast off, but determined to recover and save a Remnant according to the Election of Grace; which how he did it in a way of Condecency unto all his Divine Perfections, I have elsewhere declared.