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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.
2. OUR second Direction unto the same End is; That we diligently study the Scripture, and the Revelations that are made of this Glory of Christ therein. To behold it, is not a Work of Fancy or Imagination. It is not conversing with an Image framed by the Art of Men without, or that of our own Fancy within; but of Faith exercised on Divine Revelations. This Direction he gives us himself. Joh 5. 39. Search the Scriptures, for they are they that testify of me. The way whereby this is done, is fully set before us in the Example of the holy Prophets under the old Testament, 1 Pet. 1. 11, 12, 13.
2. OUR second Direction unto the same End is; That we diligently study the Scripture, and the Revelations that are made of this Glory of Christ therein. To behold it, is not a Work of Fancy or Imagination. It is not conversing with an Image framed by the Art of Men without, or that of our own Fancy within; but of Faith exercised on Divine Revelations. This Direction he gives us himself. Joh 5. 39. Search the Scriptures, for they are they that testifie of me. The way whereby this is done, is fully set before us in the Example of the holy Prophets under the old Testament, 1 Pet. 1. 11, 12, 13.
THIS Principle is always to be retained in our Minds in reading of the Scripture, namely, that the Revelation and Doctrine of the Person of Christ and his Office, is the Foundation whereon all other Instructions of the Prophets and Apostles for the edification of the Church are built, and wherein to they are resolved, as is declared, Ephes. 2. 20, 21, 22. So our Lord Jesus Christ himself at large makes it manifest, Luk. 24. 26, 27, 45, 46. Lay aside the Consideration hereof, and the Scriptures are ⟨p. 47⟩