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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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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.
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 Priviledge; the greatest which on this side Heaven we can be made Partakers of.
THERE are some who regard not these things at all, but rather despise them. They never entertain any serious thoughts of obtaining a View of the Glory of God in Christ, which is to be Unbelievers. They look on him as a Teacher that came forth from God to reveal his Will, and to teach us his Worship: and so indeed he was: But this they say was the sole use of his Person in Religion, which is Mahumetism. The Manifestation of all the holy Properties of the Divine Nature, with the Representation of them unto Angels above, and the Church in this World, as he is the Image of the invisible God, in the Constitution ⟨p. 28⟩of his Person, and the Discharge of his Office, are things they regard not; yea, they despise and scorn what is professed concerning them; for Pride and Contempt of others were always the safest Covert of Ignorance; otherwise it would seem strange, that Men should openly boast of their own Blindness. But these Conceptions of Mens Minds are influenced by that Unbelief of his Divine Person, which maketh havoc of Christianity at this Day in the World.
THERE are some who regard not these things at all, but rather despise them. They never entertain any serious thoughts of obtaining a View of the Glory of God in Christ, which is to be Unbelievers. They look on him as a Teacher that came forth from God to reveal his Will, and to teach us his Worship: and so indeed he was: But this they say was the sole use of his Person in Religion, which is Mahumetism. The Manifestation of all the holy Properties of the Divine Nature, with the Representation of them unto Angels above, and the Church in this World, as he is the Image of the invisible God, in the Constitution