The Branch of the Lord, the Beauty of Zion

A 1650 sermon preached before the Council of State, expounding the glory and beauty of Christ's church under gospel ordinances. Owen unfolds Isaiah 4:2 ('the Branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious') as fulfilled in Christ and applied to the visible church, encouraging political magistrates to support gospel ordinances and challenging believers to recognize Christ's beauty in his ordained means of grace.