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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.
I speak of them, whose minds are better disposed towards heavenly things; and unto them I say, Wherefore do you love Jesus Christ? for so you profess to do. Wherefore do you trust in him? Wherefore do you honour him? Wherefore do you desire to be in Heaven with him? Can you give a reason of this hope that is in you? An account why you do all or any of these things? If you cannot, all that you pretend towards him, is but fancy and imagination; you fight uncertainly as men beating the air; or is one of your reasons hereof, That in him you do by Faith behold that glory of God, with the Holy Properties of his Nature, and their Principal Operations, in order unto your own Salvation and Blessedness, which otherwise would have been eternally hid from you? Hereon is he precious unto them that do believe.
LET us therefore, as many as are spiritual, be thus minded. Let us make use of this Privilege with rejoicing, and be found in the discharge of this Duty with diligence: For thus to behold the glory of Christ is both our privilege and our duty. The duties of the Law were a burden and a yoke; but those of the Gospel are Privileges and Advantages.
LET us therefore, as many as are spiritual, be thus minded. Let us make use of this Priviledge with rejoycing, and be found in the discharge of this Duty with diligence: For thus to behold the glory of Christ is both our priviledge and our duty. The duties of the Law were a burthen and a yoke; but those of the Gospel are Priviledges and Advantages.
IT is a Promise concerning the days of the New Testament, that our eyes shall see the King in his beauty, Isa. 33. 17. We shall behold the Glory of Christ in its Lustre and Excellency: What is this Beauty of the King of ⟨p. 29⟩