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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
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SOME will say they understand not these things, nor any Concernment of their own in them. If they are true, yet are they Notions which they may safely be without the Knowledge of; for so far as they can discern, they have no Influence on Christian Practice, or Duties of Morality. And the preaching of them doth but take off the Minds of Men from more necessary Duties. But if the Gospel be hid it is hid unto them that perish. And unto the Objection I say:
1. NOTHING is more fully and clearly revealed in the Gospel, than that unto us Jesus Christ is the Image of the invisible God that he is the Character of the Person of the Father, so as that in seeing him, we see the Father also; that we have the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in his Face alone, as hath been proved. This is the Principal Fundamental Mystery and Truth of the Gospel; and which if it be not received, believed, owned, all other Truths are useless unto our Souls. To refer all the ⟨p. 32⟩Testimonies that are given hereunto, to the Doctrine which he taught, in Contradistinction unto his Person, as acting in the Discharge of his Office, is Antievangilical, Antichristian, turning the whole Gospel into a Fable.
2. IT is so, that the Light of Faith is given unto us principally to enable us to behold the Glory of God in Christ; to contemplate on it, as unto all the Ends of its Manifestation. So is it expressly affirmed, 2 Cor. 4. 6. If we have not this Light, as it is communicated by the Power of God unto them that do believe, Ephes. 1. 17, 18, 19. we must be Strangers unto the whole Mystery of the Gospel,