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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.
WHAT are all the stained Glories, the fading Beauties of this World? Of all that the Devil showed our Saviour from the Mount? What are they in comparison of one View of the Glory of God represented in Christ, and of the Glory of Christ as his great Representative?
WHAT are all the stained Glories, the fading Beauties of this World? Of all that the Devil shewed our Saviour from the Mount? What are they in comparison of one View of the Glory of God represented in Christ, and of the Glory of Christ as his great Representative?
THE most pernicious effect of Unbelief under the preaching of the Gospel is, that together with an influence of Power from Satan, it blinds the eyes of mens minds, that they should not see this Glory of Christ, whereon they perish eternally, 2 Cor. 4. 3, 4.
BUT the most of those who at this day are called Christians are strangers unto this duty: Our Lord Jesus Christ told the Pharisees, that notwithstanding all their boasting of the knowledge of God, they had not heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape; that is as Moses did. They had no real acquaintance with him, they had no spiritual view of his Glory; and so it is amongst our selves. Notwithstanding the general profession that is of the Knowledge of Christ, they are but few who thus behold his Glory; and therefore few who are transformed into his Image and Likeness.