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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.
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 ⟨p. 32⟩Testimonies that are given hereunto, to the Doctrine which he taught, in Contradistinction unto his Person, as acting in the Discharge of his Office, is Antievangilical, Antichristian, turning the whole Gospel into a Fable.
2. IT is so, that the Light of Faith is given unto us principally to enable us to behold the Glory of God in Christ; to contemplate on it, as unto all the Ends of its Manifestation. So is it expressly affirmed, 2 Cor. 4. 6. If we have not this Light, as it is communicated by the Power of God unto them that do believe, Ephes. 1. 17, 18, 19. we must be Strangers unto the whole Mystery of the Gospel, 2 Cor. 4. 3, 4.
2. IT is so, that the Light of Faith is given unto us principally to enable us to behold the Glory of God in Christ; to contemplate on it, as unto all the Ends of its Manifestation. So is it expresly affirmed, 2 Cor. 4. 6. If we have not this Light, as it is communicated by the Power of God unto them that do believe, Ephes. 1. 17, 18, 19