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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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THIS is our first saving view of Christ, the first instance of our beholding his glory by faith. So to see him, as to see God in him, is to behold his glory; for herein is he eternally glorious. And this is that Glory whose view we ought to long for, and labour after. And if we see it not, we are yet in darkness; yea, tho' we say we see, we are blind like others. So David longed and prayed for it, when yet he could behold it only in Types and Shadows, Psal. 63. 1, 2. O God, thou art my God, early will I seek thee; my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, to see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen them in the sanctuary. For there was in the Sanctuary an obscure representation of the Glory of God in Christ. How much more should we prize that view of it, which we may have with open face, tho' yet as in a glass? 2 Cor. 3. 18.
MOSES when he had seen the Works of God, which were great and marvellous, yet found not himself satisfied therewith: Wherefore after all, he prays that God would show him his Glory, Exod. 33. 18. He knew that the Ultimate Rest, Blessedness and Satisfaction of the Soul, is not in seeing the works of God, but the Glory of God himself. Therefore did he desire some immediate dawnings of it upon him in this World. I beseech thee show me thy Glory. And if we have right apprehensions of the Future State of Blessedness, we cannot but have the same desire ⟨p. 23⟩of seeing more of his Glory in this life. But the Question is, How me may attain it? If we are left unto our selves in this Enquiry, if we have no other way for it, but the immediate fixing of our thoughts on the Immensity of the Divine Nature, we must come every one to the Conclusion that Agur makes on the like consideration; Surely I am more brutish than any Man, and have not the Understanding of a Man; I neither learned Wisdom, nor have the Knowledge of the Holy. Who hath ascended up into Heaven, or descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fist? Who hath bound the waters in a garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his sons name, if thou canst tell,