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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.
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. we must be Strangers unto the whole Mystery of the Gospel, 2 Cor. 4. 3, 4.
3. THAT in the beholding of the Glory of God in Christ, we behold his Glory also. For herein is he infinitely glorious above the whole Creation, in that in and by him alone the Glory of the Invisible God is represented unto us. Herein do our Souls live. This is that whereby the Image of God is renewed in us, and we are made like unto the First born.