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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.
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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.
4. THIS is so far from being unnecessary unto Christian Practice, and the sanctified Duties of Morality, that he knows not Christ, he knows not the Gospel, he knows not the Faith of the Catholic Church, who imagines that they can be performed acceptably without it. Yea, this is the Root whence all other Christian Duties do spring, and whereon they grow, whereby they are distinguished from the Works of Heathens. He is no Christian who believes not that Faith in the Person of Christ is the Spring of all Evangelical Obedience; or who knows not that this Faith respects the Revelation of the Glory of God in him.
4. THIS is so far from being unnecessary unto Christian Practice, and the sanctified Duties of Morality, that he knows not Christ, he knows not the Gospel, he knows not the Faith of the Catholick Church, who imagins that they can be performed acceptably without it. Yea, this is the Root whence all other Christian Duties do spring, and whereon they grow, whereby they are distinguished from the Works of Heathens. He is no Christian who believes not that Faith in the Person of Christ is the Spring of all Evangelical Obedience; or who knows not that this Faith respects the Revelation of the Glory of God in him.
IF these things are so, as they are the most important Truths of the Gospel, and whose Denial overthrows the Foundation of Faith, and is ruinous to Christian Religion: Certainly it is our Duty to live in the constant Exercise