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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.
IS Christ then thus glorious in our Eyes? Do we see the Father in him, or by seeing of him? Do we sedulously, daily contemplate on the Wisdom, Love, Grace, Goodness, Holiness, and Righteousness of God, as revealing and manifesting themselves in him? Do we sufficiently consider, that the immediate Vision of this Glory in Heaven will be our everlasting Blessedness? Doth the imperfect View which we have of it here, increase our Desires after the perfect Sought of it above? With respect unto these Enquiries, I shall briefly speak unto sundry sorts of Men.
IS Christ then thus glorious in our Eyes? Do we see the Father in him, or by seeing of him? Do we sedulously, daily contemplate on the Wisdom, Love, Grace, Goodness, Holiness, and Righteousness of God, as revealing and manifesting themselves in him? Do we sufficiently consider, that the immediate Vision of this Glory in Heaven will be our everlasting Blessedness? Doth the imperfect View which we have of it here, encrease our Desires after the perfect Soght of it above? With respect unto these Enquiries, I shall briefly speak unto sundry sorts of Men.
SOME will say they understand not these things, nor any Concernment of their own in them. If they are true, yet are they Notions which they may safely be without the Knowledge of; for so far as they can discern, they have no Influence on Christian Practice, or Duties of Morality. And the preaching of them doth but take off the Minds of Men from more necessary Duties. But if the Gospel be hid it is hid unto them that perish. And unto the Objection I say:
1. NOTHING is more fully and clearly revealed in the Gospel, than that unto us Jesus Christ is the Image of the invisible God that he is the Character of the Person of the Father, so as that in seeing him, we see the Father also; that we have the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in his Face alone, as hath been proved. This is the Principal Fundamental Mystery and Truth of the Gospel; and which if it be not received, believed, owned, all other Truths are useless unto our Souls. To refer all the