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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.
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.
2. THIS is the spring of all wickedness and confusion among men themselves. Hence arose that flood of Abominations in the Old World, which God took away with a Flood of Desolation: Hence were the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, which he revenged with fire from Heaven. In brief: All the Rage, Blood, Confusion, Desolations, Cruelties, Oppressions, Villainies, which the World hath been, and is filled withal, whereby the souls of men have been, and are flooded into eternal destruction, have all arisen from this corrupt Fountain of the Ignorance of God.
2. THIS is the spring of all wickedness and confusion among men themselves. Hence arose that flood of Abominations in the Old World, which God took away with a Flood of Desolation: Hence were the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, which he revenged with fire from Heaven. In brief: All the Rage, Blood, Confusion, Desolations, Cruelties, Oppressions, Villanies, which the World hath been, and is filled withal, whereby the souls of men have been, and are flouded into eternal destruction, have all arisen from this corrupt Fountain of the Ignorance of God.
3. OF such as those described, we are the Posterity and Off-spring. Our Fore-fathers in this Nation, were given up unto as brutish a service of the Devil, as any Nation under the Sun. It is therefore an effect of infinite mercy, that the day hath dawned on us, poor Gentiles, and that the day-spring from on high hath visited us. See the glory of this Grace expressed, Ephes. 3. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. God might have left us to perish in the blindness and ignorance of our Fore-fathers; but of his own accord, and by his own powerful Grace alone, he hath translated us out of darkness into his marvellous light. But alas! the horrible ingratitude of men, for the glorious light of the Gospel, and the abuse of it, will issue in a sore revenge.