Glories of Christ

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W.C. Dean

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I am looking for some works to read on Christ's work, excellencies, glories, faithfulness, and so on. I do not care how old or modern it is, but I do struggle with some Puritans currently.

I know The Whole Christ By Ferguson is a good one, and John Owen's works as well (I struggle with him). Any recommendations, long or short, would be appreciated.
 
Samuel Rutherford - The Loveliness of Christ is available on Banner of Truth and it is a delight. Good for devotional reading.

https://banneroftruth.org/us/store/devotionalsdaily-readings/the-loveliness-of-Christ/
 
I am looking for some works to read on Christ's work, excellencies, glories, faithfulness, and so on. I do not care how old or modern it is, but I do struggle with some Puritans currently.

I know The Whole Christ By Ferguson is a good one, and John Owen's works as well (I struggle with him). Any recommendations, long or short, would be appreciated.

I highly recommend Vincent's The True Love to the Unseen Christ. It is a delightful little book that sets forth the beauty of Christ and our necessary love to such a Savior.

https://www.heritagebooks.org/products/the-true-christians-love-to-the-unseen-Christ-vincent.html
 
Pearse's The Soul's Best Match is also an excellent read on the believer's espousal to Christ.

https://www.heritagebooks.org/products/the-best-match-the-souls-espousal-to-Christ-pearse.html

John Flavel's The Fountain of Life is an excellent Christological treatise. Sibbe's A Description of Christ is a beautiful read as well.
 
Goodwin's The Heart of Christ Towards Sinners and Christ Set Forth are classics of Puritan Christology.

https://www.heritagebooks.org/produ...ist-towards-sinners-on-the-earth-goodwin.html

My wife and I just started Ortlund's Gentle and Lowly. He is synthesizing Thomas Goodwin's Christology. Thus far, it has been an excellent read, though we haven't gotten very far.

https://www.heritagebooks.org/produ...Christ-for-sinners-and-sufferers-ortlund.html
 
Rutherford is excellent, but please do not settle for the abridgment. His letters are amongst my desert island picks.

Thank you sir, for all your recommendations!

What would you say is the general reading level of Vincent's work? I can do well with someone like Manton, and Owen gives me trouble. The 17th century Americans are more difficult than Owen, in my opinion.
 
Volume one of John Owen's works, Christological treatises, changed my life. Owen is notoriously difficult, but his Christological treatises are worth every bit of effort.

The Christian Focus editions are a great place to begin. They are not abridged, but there have been some editorial work done to make him easier to digest.

https://www.heritagebooks.org/products/the-glory-of-Christ-his-office-and-grace.html

https://www.heritagebooks.org/products/the-person-of-Christ-owen.html
 
Thank you sir, for all your recommendations!

What would you say is the general reading level of Vincent's work? I can do well with someone like Manton, and Owen gives me trouble. The 17th century Americans are more difficult than Owen, in my opinion.

He is very easy to read—some of the easiest you will find in the field of Puritan works.
 
For an excellent sampler of Patristic Christology, I highly commend IVP's Ancient Christian Doctrine series, volumes one and two. It is in the style of the classic Catena Aurea on the Nicen Creed. I won't post the links as the dustjackets have "images of Christ." It is worth buying those volumes and throwing away the dust jackets. It is a great way to get your feet wet with Patristic theology.
 
The Whole Christ is excellent. That was a profoundly helpful work for me. The lectures on which it is based helped me find where there were remains of legalism in my Gospel understanding, where I was splitting Christ off from His benefits, and showed me that Christ is the whole of my salvation.

Not that we only receive benefits from Him, but the benefits are in Him, received when we come into relationship with Him.
 
My wife had read John Owen’s Glories of Christ. She found it marvelous. The few portions I read were wonderful. As always, deeply theological, conducive to admiration and worship.
 
John Owen's works as well (I struggle with him)
Owen is easier to read if you go with a modern publication that has abridged his work and updated the writing. Happily for your quest, the Banner of Truth Puritan Paperbacks edition of The Glory of Christ has been expertly abridged and updated. I feel sure you would find it easier than reading Owen in the original form.
 
John Owen (glory of Christ, reading a pdf online) "But the inquiry is as before, – How shall we have a view of this love, of God as love? by what way or means shall we behold the glory of it? It is hidden from all living, in God himself. The wise philosophers, who discoursed so much of the love of God, knew nothing of this, that “God is love.” The most of the natural notions of men about it are corrupt, and the best of them weak and imperfect. Generally, the thoughts of men about it are, that he is of a facile and easy nature, one that they may make bold withal in all their occasions;" The last line is ever true for today.
 
The Whole Christ is excellent. That was a profoundly helpful work for me. The lectures on which it is based helped me find where there were remains of legalism in my Gospel understanding, where I was splitting Christ off from His benefits, and showed me that Christ is the whole of my salvation.
Jake, on another post, we were discussing MacArthur's Lordship Salvation and said MacArthur was helpful here, but his weakness was he did not have a covenantal framework for his Lordship salvation. I had in mind Fisher's book "The Marrow of Modern Divinity" which is the book Sinclair Ferguson had in mind when he wrote "The whole Christ".
 
I just bought the ‘Marrow of Modern Divinity’. Excited to read it! Has anyone else read it?


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