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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. IN and through Christ we do believe in God, 1 Pet. 1. 24. This is the Life of our Souls. God himself in the infinite Perfections of his Divine Nature, is the ultimate Object of our Faith, but he is not here the immediate Object of it, but the Divine Way and Means of the Manifestation of himself and them unto us, are so. Through Christ we believe in God. By our Belief in him, we come to place our Faith ultimately in God himself; and this we can no otherwise do, but by beholding the Glory of God in him, as hath been declared.
3. THIS is the only way whereby we may attain the saving, sanctifying Knowledge of God; Without this, every Beam of Divine Light that shines on us, or gleans from without (as the Light shineth into Darkness when the Darkness comprehendeth it not, Joh. 1. 5.) Every Spark that ariseth from the Remainders of the Light of Nature within, do rather amaze the Minds of Men, than lead them into the saving Knowledge of God. So a Glance of Light in a dark Night giving a transient View of various Objects, and passing away, doth rather amaze, than ⟨p. 38⟩direct a Traveller, and leave him more exposed unto wandering than before. Such were all those Notions of the Divine Being and its Excellencies, which those who boasted themselves to be wise among the Heathen embraced and improved. They did but fluctuate in their Minds, they did not transform them into the Image and Likeness of God, as the saving Knowledge of him doth, Col. 3. 10.
3. THIS is the only way whereby we may attain the saving, sanctifying Knowledge of God; Without this, every Beam of Divine Light that shines on us, or gleans from without (as the Light shineth into Darkness when the Darkness comprehendeth it not,