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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.
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 […], and with individual persons innumerable.
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 Vertue 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 Scepter 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 〈…〉, and with individual persons innumerable.