“Eternally secured” by John Owen

“In Christ the relation of our nature unto God is eternally secured.

We were created in a covenant relation unto God. Our nature was related unto Him in a way of friendship, of likeness, and complacency.

But the bond of this relation and union was quickly broken, by our apostasy from Him.

Hereon our whole nature became to be at the utmost moral distance from God, and enmity against Him, which is the depth of misery.

But God, in infinite wisdom and grace, did design once more to recover it, and take it again near unto Himself.

And He would do it in such a way as should render it utterly impossible that there should ever be a separation between Him and it any more.

Heaven and earth may pass away, but there shall never be a dissolution of the union between God and our nature any more.

He did it, therefore, by assuming it into a substantial union with Himself, in the person of the Son.

Hereby the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in it bodily, or substantially, and eternally.

Hereby is its relation unto God eternally secured.”

–John Owen, The Works of John Owen, Volume 1: The Glory of Christ (ed. William H. Goold; Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1850-53/1997), 1: 276-277.