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Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…
Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decays : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...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 ...
London: printed by J.A. for William Marshall, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE Ancient Philosophers made great Enquiries into, and obtained many Notions of the Divine Being, its Existence ⟨p. 18⟩and Excellencies. And these Notions they adorned with great Elegance of Speech, to allure others unto the Admiration of them. Hereon they boasted themselves to be the only Wise Men in the World, Rom. 1. 22. [Greek or Hebrew] they boasted that they were the Wise: But we must abide in the Judgment of the Apostles, concerning them in their Enquiries: He assures us, that the World in its Wisdom, that is, these wise Men in it by their Wisdom knew not God, 1 Cor. 1. 21. And he calls the Authors of their best Notions Atheists, or Men without God in the Word, Ephes. 2. 12. For,
THE Antient Philosophers made great Enquiries into, and obtained many Notions of the Divine Being, its Existence ⟨p. 18⟩and Excellencies. And these Notions they adorned with great Elegancy of Speech, to allure others unto the Admiration of them. Hereon they boasted themselves to be the only Wise Men in the World, Rom. 1. 22. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 they boasted that they were the Wise: But we must abide in the Judgment of the Apostles, concerning them in their Enquiries: He assures us, that the World in its Wisdom, that is, these wise Men in it by their Wisdom knew not God, 1 Cor. 1. 21. And he calls the Authors of their best Notions Atheists, or Men without God in the Word, Ephes. 2. 12. For,