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Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
Meditations and discourses on the glory of Christ, in his person, office, and grace with the differences between faith and sight applied unto the use of them that believe / by the late Reverend John Owen, D.D.
London: printed by B.A., 1691
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Chapter 2: The Glory of the Person of Christ, as the only Representative of God unto the Church.
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2. WHATEVER they did attain, as unto rational Notions about things invisible and incomprehensible, yet could they never deliver themselves from such Principles and Practises in Idolatry and all manner of flagitious Sins, ⟨p. 19⟩as that they could be of any Benefit […] so effectually demonstrated by the Apostle in the First Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, as that we need not to insist upon it.
2. WHATEVER they did attain, as unto rational Notions about things invisible and incomprehensible, yet could they never deliver themselves from such Principles and Practises in Idolatry and all manner of flagitious Sins, ⟨p. 19⟩as that they could be of any Benefit 〈…〉 so effectually demonstrated by the Apostle in the First Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, as that we need not to insist upon it.
MEN may talk what they please of a Light within them, or of the Power of Reason, to conduct them unto that Knowledge of God, whereby they may live unto him: But if they had nothing else, if they did not boast themselves of that Light, which hath its Foundation and Original in Divine Revelation alone, they would not excel them, who in the best Management of their own Reasonings, knew not God, but waxed vain in their Imaginations.
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.