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A53707 Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decayes : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ... Owen, John, 1616-1683. 1691 (1691) Wing O769; ESTC R13776 183,162 300

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Elect of God are sinners They were so in Adam they have been and are so in themselves What doth become the Justice of God to do thereon Shall it dismiss them all unpunished Where then is that Justice which spared not the Angels who sinned nor Adam at the first Would this procedure have any consonancy thereunto be reconcilable unto it Wherefore the Establishment of the Righteousness of God on the one hand and the forgiveness of sin on the other seem so contradictory as that many stumble and fall at it eternally see Ram. 10. 3 4. BUT in this interposition of Christ in this Translation of punishment from the Church unto him by vertue of his Conjunction therewith there is a blessed harmony between the Righteousness of the God and the forgiveness of sins the exemplification whereof is his Eternal Glory O Blessed Change O Sweet permutation as Justine Martyr speaks BY Vertue of his Union with the Church which of his own accord he entred into and his undertaking therein to answer for it in the sight of God it was a righteous thing with God to lay the punishment of all our sins upon him so as that he might freely and graciously pardon them all to the Honour and Exaltation of his Justice as well as of his Grace and Mercy Rom. 3. 24 25 26. HEREIN is he Glorious in the sight of God Angels and Men. In him there is at the same time in the same Divine Actings a Glorious Resplendency of Justice and Mercy of the one in punishing of the other in pardoning The appearing inconsistency between the Righteousness of God and the Salvation of sinners wherewith the Consciences of convinced Persons are exercised and terrified and which is the Rock at which most of them split themselves into Eternal Ruin is herein removed and taken away In his Cross were Divine Holiness and Vindictive Justice exercised and manifested and through his Triumph Grace and Mercy are exerted to the utmost This is that Glory which ravisheth the Hearts and satiates the Souls of them that believe For what can they desire more what is farther needful unto the Rest and Composure of their Souls than at one view to behold God eternally well pleased in the declaration of his Righteousness and the exercise of his Mercy in order unto their Salvation In due apprehensions hereof let my Soul live in the faith hereof let me dye and let present Admiration of this Glory make way for the eternal enjoyment of it in its beauty and fulness HE is Glorious in that the Law of God in its Preceptive part or as unto the Obedience which it required was perfectly fulfilled and accomplished That it should be so was absolutely necessary from the Wisdom Holiness and Righteousness of him by whom it was given For what could be more remote from those Divine Perfections than to give a Law which never was to be fulfilled in them unto whom it was given and who were to have the advantages of it This could not be done by us But through the Obedience of Christ by vertue of this his Mystical Conjunction with the Church the Law was so fulfilled in us by being fulfilled for us as that the Glory of God in the giving of it and annexing eternal Rewards unto it is exceedingly exalted see Rom. 8. 3 4. THIS is that Glory of Christ whereof one view by faith will scatter all the fears answer all the objections and give relief against all the Despondencies of poor tempted doubting souls and an Anchor it will be unto all believers which they may cast within the Vail to hold them firm and stedfast in all Tryals Storms and Temptations in Life and Death CHAP. X. The Glory of Christ in the Communication of himself unto Believers ANOTHER instance of the Glory of Christ which we are to behold here by Faith and hope that we shall do so by sight hereafter consists in the Mysterious Communication of himself and all the Benefits of his Mediation unto the souls of them that do believe to their present happiness and future eternal Blessedness HEREBY he becomes theirs as they are his which is the Life the Glory and Consolation of the Church Cant. 6. 3. Chap. 2. 16. Chap. 3. 10. He and all that he is being appropriated unto them by vertue of their Mystical Union There is there must be some Ground formal Reason and Cause of this Relation between Christ and the Church whereby he is theirs and they are his he is in them and they in him so as it is not between him and other Men in the World THE Apostle speaking of this Communication of Christ unto the Church and the Union between them which doth ensue thereon affirms that is a Great Mystery for I speak saith he concerning Christ and the Church Ephes. 5. 32. I SHALL very briefly enquire into the Causes Ways and Means of this Mysterious Communication whereby he is made to be ours to be in us to dwell with us and all the benefits of his Mediation to belong unto us For as was said it is evident that he doth not thus communicate himself unto all by a natural Necessity as the Sun gives light equally unto the whole World nor is he present withall by an Vbiquity of his humane Nature nor as some dream by a Diffusion of his rational Soul into all nor doth he become ours by a carnal eating of him in the Sacrament but this Mystery proceeds from and depends on other Reasons and Causes as we shall briefly declare BUT yet before I proceed to declare the way and manner whereby Christ communicateth himself unto the Church I must premise something of Divine Communications in General and their Glory And I shall do this by touching a little on the harmony and Correspondency that is between the Old Creation and the New 1. ALL Being Power Goodness and Wisdom were originally essentially infinitely in God And in them with the other Perfections of his Nature consisted his Essential Glory 2. THE Old Creation was a Communication of Being and Goodness by Almighty Power directed by Infinite Wisdom unto all things that were created for the manifestation of that Glory This was the first Communication of God unto any thing without himself and it was exceeding glorious see Psal. 19. 1. Rom. 1. 21. And it was a curious Machine framed in the subordination and dependency of one thing on another without which they could not subsist nor have a continuance of their Beings All Creatures below live on the Earth and the products of it the Earth for its whole production depends on the Sun and other Heavenly Bodies as God declares Hos. 2. 21 22. I will hear saith the Lord I will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth and the Earth shall hear the Corn and the Wine and the Oil and they shall bear Jezreel God hath given a subordination of things in a Concatenation of Causes whereon their Subsistence doth depend Yet 4. IN