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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.
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WE may take notice of an Instance in one kind under the Old Testament, and of one and another under the New.
HIS Personal Appearances under the Old Testament, carried in them a Demonstration of his Glory: Such was that in the Vision which Isaiah had, when he saw his Glory, and spake of him, Chap. 6. 1, 2. I saw the Lord sitting upon a Throne, high and lifted up, and his Train filled the Temple. About it stood the Seraphims, &c. It was a Representation of the Glory of the Divine Presence of Christ filling ⟨p. 48⟩his Humane Nature, the Temple of his Body, with a Train of all glorious Graces. And if this Typical Representation of it was so glorious, as that the Seraphims were not able steadfastly to behold it, but covered their Faces upon its Appearance, v. 2. how exceeding glorious is it in it self, as it is openly revealed in the Gospel!
HIS Personal Appearances under the Old Testament, carried in them a Demonstration of his Glory: Such was that in the Vision which Isaiah had, when he saw his Glory, and spake of him, Chap. 6. 1, 2. I saw the Lord sitting upon a Throne, high and lifted up, and his Train filled the Temple. About it stood the Seraphims, &c. It was a Representation of the Glory of the Divine Presence of Christ filling ⟨p. 48⟩his Humane Nature, the Temple of his Body, with a Train of all glorious Graces. And if this Typical Representation of it was so glorious, as that the Seraphims were not able stedfastly to behold it, but covered their Faces upon its Appearance, v. 2. how exceeding glorious is it in it self, as it is openly revealed in the Gospel!
OF the same Nature are the immediate Testimonies given unto him from Heaven in the New Testament: So the Apostle tells us, he received from God the Father, honour, and glory, when there came such a Voice unto him from the excellent Glory, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased,