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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.
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⟩no such thing as they pretend unto; namely, a Revelation of the Glory of God in the Salvation of the Church; nor are those of the Old Testament so at this Day unto the Jews, who own not this Principle, 2 Cor. 3. 13, 14, 15, 16. There are therefore such Revelations of the Person and Glory of Christ treasured up in the Scripture, from the beginning unto the end of it, as may exercise the Faith and Contemplation of Believers in this World; and shall never, during this Life, be fully discovered or understood; and in Divine Meditations of these Revelations, doth much of the Life of Faith consist.
THERE are three ways whereby the Glory of Christ is represented unto us in the Scripture. First, by direct Descriptions of his glorious Person and Incarnation. See among other places, Gen. 3. 15. Psal. 2. 7, 8, 9. Psal. 45. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Psal. 68. 17, 18.