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The branch of the Lord, the beauty of ZionThe branch of the Lord, the beauty of Sion
The branch of the Lord, the beauty of Zion: or, The glory of the Church, in it's relation unto Christ· Opened in two sermons; one preached at Berwick, the other at Edinburgh. By John Owen, minister of the Gospel.The branch of the Lord, the beauty of Sion: or, The glory of the Church, in it's relation unto Christ· Opened in two sermons; one preached at Berwick, the other at Edinburgh. By John Owen, minister of the Gospel.
Edinburgh: printed by Evan Tyler, 1650
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1. Show you what are the chief Properties of this House. 2. Declare what is the Relation, wherein Jesus Christ stands to this House, having called it all along the Church of Christ.
1. Shew you what are the chief Properties of this House. 2. Declare what is the Relation, wherein Jesus Christ stands to this House, having called it all along the Church of Christ.
1. For the Properties or chief qualities of this House, they are three: 1. It is a living House: 2. it is strong: 3. it is glorious.
1 It is a living House: Unto whom coming as unto a living stone, ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual House, 1 Pet: 2: 4: 5. Christ the foundation is a living Stone, and they that are built upon him, are living stones. Hence they are said to grow together into an House: Growth is a sign of life: Growing from an inward Principle: such as the Growth of any thing is, such is its life: the Groweth of this House is spiritual, so therefore also is its life: it lives with a spiritual life: a life whose fullness, is in its foundation, he hath life in himself: Joh: 5. 26▪ and from him, in them: I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live, Gal: 2: 22: yea it is himself in them; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. It is true those stones are dead in the Rock as well as others: by nature Children of wrath as well as they, Ephes. 2: 3: being dead in Trespasses and sins: v: 1. He who Hews them our, gives them life: He quickens them, when dead in trespasses and sin: There is not one rotten dead stone in all this building: However some such may, by the advantage of their outward appearance, crowd in, yet they are not of the House it self.