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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 2: The Glory of the Person of Christ, as the only Representative of God unto the Church.
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.
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.
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,