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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.
THESE things are of the deep things of God, such as belong unto that Wisdom of God in a Mystery, which they that are Carnal cannot receive, as the Apostle testifies, 1 Cor. 2. 14. But the meanest Believer who lives in the Exercise of Faith, may have an Understanding of them so far as is needful unto his Love and Obedience. The Sum of the whole is this; if you would behold the Glory of Christ, as the great Means of your Sanctification and Consolation, as the only Preparation for the beholding of his Glory in Eternal Blessedness: Consider what of God is made known and represented unto you in him, wherein God purposed and designed to glorify himself in him: Now this is all that may be known of God in a saving manner; especially his Wisdom, his Love, his Goodness, Grace and Mercy, whereon the Life of our Souls doth depend; And the Lord Christ being appointed the only Way and Means hereof, how exceeding glorious must he be in the Eyes of them that do believe!
THESE things are of the deep things of God, such as belong unto that Wisdom of God in a Mystery, which they that are Carnal cannot receive, as the Apostle testifies, 1 Cor. 2. 14. But the meanest Believer who lives in the Exercise of Faith, may have an Understanding of them so far as is needful unto his Love and Obedience. The Sum of the whole is this; if you would behold the Glory of Christ, as the great Means of your Sanctification and Consolation, as the only Preparation for the beholding of his Glory in Eternal Blessedness: Consider what of God is made known and represented unto you in him, wherein God purposed and designed to glorifie himself in him: Now this is all that may be known of God in a saving manner; especially his Wisdom, his Love, his Goodness, Grace and Mercy, whereon the Life of our Souls doth depend; And the Lord Christ being appointed the only Way and Means hereof, how exceeding glorious must he be in the Eyes of them that do believe!
THESE things being premised, I shall close this first Consideration of that Glory of Christ which we behold by Faith in this World, with some such Observations, as may excite us unto the Practise of this great Duty, and Improvement of this great Privilege; the greatest which on this side Heaven we can be made Partakers of.