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To Brian, and any readers, I apologize for not staying on top of this. I am currently reading through Owen’s Communion with the Triune God and it is hard for me to track along with two of Owen’s works at the same time. I’m definitely getting Owen’ed out… When I have finished that book, we can continue on Chapter 5.
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CHAPTER 4. OF THOSE THINGS WHICH IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION ARE PECULIARLY ASCRIBED TO THE PERSON OF THE SON. SECONDLY, The SON was an agent in this great work, concurring by a voluntary susception, or willing undertaking of the office imposed on him; for when the Lord said, “Sacrifice and offering he would not: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin he had no pleasure,” then said Christ, “Lo, I come, (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God,” Hebrews 10:6, 7. All other ways being rejected as insufficient, Christ undertaketh the task, “in whom alone... [read more]
add to discussionCHAPTER 3 OF THE AGENT OR CHIEF AUTHOR OF THE WORK OF OUR REDEMPTION, AND OF THE FIRST THING DISTINCTLY ASCRIBED TO THE PERSON OF THE FATHER. I. The agent in, and chief author of, this great work of our redemption is the whole blessed Trinity; for all the works which outwardly are of the Deity are undivided and belong equally to each person, their distinct manner of subsistence and order being observed. It is true, there were sundry other instrumental causes in the oblation, or rather passion of Christ but the work cannot in any sense be ascribed unto them; — for in respect of God the... [read more]
add to discussionCHAPTER 2 OF THE NATURE OF AN END IN GENERAL, AND SOME DISTINCTIONS ABOUT IT. I. The end of anything is that which the agent intendeth to accomplish in and by the operation which is proper unto its nature, and which it applieth itself unto, — that which any one aimeth at, and designeth in himself to attain, as a thing good and desirable unto him in the state and condition wherein he is. So the end which Noah proposed unto himself in the building of the ark was the preservation of himself and others. According to the will of God, he made an ark to preserve himself and his family from ... [read more]
add to discussionBOOK 1 CHAPTER 1 IN GENERAL OF THE END OF THE DEATH OF CHRIST, AS IT IS IN THE SCRIPTURE PROPOSED. By the end of the death of Christ, we mean in general, both, — first, that which his Father and himself intended in it; and, secondly, that which was effectually fulfilled and accomplished by it. Concerning either we may take a brief view of the expressions used by the Holy Ghost: – I. For the first. Will you know the end wherefore, and the intention wherewith, Christ came into the world? Let us ask himself (who knew his own mind, as also all the secrets of his Father’s bosom... [read more]
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