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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.
THEN do we find Food for our Souls in the Word of Truth, then do we taste how gracious the Lord is therein, then is the Scripture full of Refreshment unto us, as a Spring of Living Water, when we are taken into blessed Views of the Glory of Christ therein. And we are in the best Frame of Duty, when the principal Motive in our Minds to contend earnestly for retaining the possession of the Scripture, against all that would deprive us of it, or discourage us from a daily diligent search into it, is this, that they would take from us the only Glass wherein we may behold the Glory of Christ. This is the Glory of the Scripture, that it is the great, yea, the only outward Means of representing unto us the Glory of Christ; and he is the Sun in the Firmament of it, which only hath Light in it self, and communicates it unto all other things besides.
3. ANOTHER Direction unto this same End, is, That having attained the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of Christ from the Scripture, or by the Dispensation of the Truth in the preaching of the Gospel, we would esteem it our Duty frequently to meditate thereon.
WANT hereof is that fundamental Mistake which keeps many among us so low in their Grace, so regardless of their Privileges. They hear of these things, they assent ⟨p. 50⟩unto their Truth, at least they do not gainsay them: but they never solemnly meditate upon them. This they esteem a Work that is above them, or are ignorant totally of it, or esteem themselves not much concerned in it, or dislike it as Fanaticism. For it is that which no Considerations can engage a carnal Mind to delight in. The Mind must be spiritual and holy, freed from earthly Affections and Encumbrances, raised above things here below, that can in a due manner meditate on the Glory of Christ. Therefore are the most Strangers unto this Duty, because they will not be at the Trouble and Charge of that Mortification of earthly Affections, that Extirpation of sensual Inclinations, that Retirement from the Occasions of Life, which are required there unto. See the Treatise of Spiritual-mindedness.