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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 3: The Glory of Christ in the Mysterious Constitution of his Person.
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. LET us get it fixed on our Souls, and in our Minds, that this Glory of Christ in the Divine Constitution of his Person, is the best, the most noble, useful, beneficial Object, that we can be conversant about in our Thoughts, or or cleave unto in our Affections.
What are all other things in comparison of the Knowledge of Christ? In the Judgment of the great Apostle, they are but Loss and Dung, Phil. 3. 8, 9, 10. So they were to him, and if they are not so to us, we are carnal.
WHAT is the World, and what are the things thereof which most men spend their Thoughts about, and fix their Affections on? The Psalmist gives his Judgment about them, in comparison of a View of this Glory of Christ, Psal. 4. 6. Many say, who will show us any good? Who will give and help us to attain so much in and of this World, as will give Rest and Satisfaction unto our Minds? That is the good-enquired after. But, saith he, Lord lift up the Light of thy Countenance upon us. The Light of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ Jesus, is that satisfactory Good alone, which I desire and seek after.
WHAT is the World, and what are the things thereof which most men spend their Thoughts about, and fix their Affections on? The Psalmist gives his Judgment about them, in comparison of a View of this Glory of Christ, Psal. 4. 6. Many say, who will shew us any good? Who will give and help us to attain so much in and of this World, as will give Rest and Satisfaction unto our Minds? That is the good-enquired after. But, saith he, Lord lift up the Light of thy Countenance upon us. The Light of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ Jesus, is that satisfactory Good alone, which I desire and seek after.