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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.
WITH respect unto this Universal Darkness, that is, Ignorance of God, with horrid Confusion accompanying it in the Minds of Men, Christ is called, and is, the Light of Men, the Light of the World, because in and by him alone this Darkness is dispelled, as he is the Son of Righteousness.
WITH respect unto this Vniversal Darkness, that is, Ignorance of God, with horrid Confusion accompanying it in the Minds of Men, Christ is called, and is, the Light of Men, the Light of the World, because in and by him alone this Darkness is dispelled, as he is the Son of Righteousness.
2. THIS Darkness in the Minds of Men, this Ignorance of God, his Nature and his Will, was the Original of all Evil unto the World, and yet continues so to be. For,
1. HEREON did Satan erect his Kingdom and Throne, obtaining in his Design until he bare himself as the God of this World, and was so esteemed by the most. He exalted himself by Virtue of this Darkness (as he is the Prince of Darkness,) into the Place and Room of God, as the Object of the Religious Worship of Men. For the things which the Gentiles sacrificed, they sacrificed unto Devils, and not to God, 1 Cor. 10. 21. Levit. 17. 7. Chap. 32. 17. Psal. 108. 27. Gal. 3. 8. This is the Territory of Satan; yea, the Power and Sceptre of his Kingdom in the Minds of the Children of Disobedience. Hereby he maintains his Dominion unto this Day in many and ⟨p. 20⟩great Nations, and with individual persons innumerable.