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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.
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.
9. HOWBEIT he would not restore them into their former State, so as to have again two distinct Families, each in an immediate Dependence on himself, though he left them in different and distinct Habitations, Eph. 3. 15. But he would gather them both into one, and that under a new Head, in whom the one Part should be preserved ⟨p. 133⟩from sinning, and the other delivered from sin committed.
9. HOWBEIT he would not restore them into their former State, so as to have again two distinct Families, each in an immediate Dependance on himself, though he left them in different and distinct Habitations, Eph. 3. 15. But he would gather them both into one, and that under a new Head, in whom the one Part should be preserved ⟨p. 133⟩from sinning, and the other delivered from sin committed.
10. THIS then is that which the Apostle declares in these Words, To gather together in one all things which are in Heaven, and which are in Earth; even in him. And so he again expresseth it, Col. 1. 20. To reconcile all things unto himself in him, whether they are things in Heaven, or things in Earth, all things were fallen into disorder and confusion by sin; they were fallen off from God into variance among themselves. God would not restore them into their first Order in an immediate Dependence on his Divine Perfections. He would no longer keep them in two distinct Families; but he would in his infinite Wisdom and Goodness gather them up into one common Head, on whom they should have their immediate Dependence, and be reconciled again among themselves.