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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 4: The Glory of Christ in his Susception of the Office of a Mediator. First in his Condesc…
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IT is true, and must be confessed, that herein it is that our Lord Jesus Christ is a stumbling Stone, and a Rock of Offence unto the World. If we should confess him only as a Prophet, a Man sent by God, there would not be much Contest about him, not Opposition unto him. The Mahometans do all acknowledge it, and the Jews would not long deny it; for their Hatred against him was, and is solely because he professed himself to be God, and as such was believed on in the World. And at this day partly through the Insinuation of the Socinians, and partly from the Efficacy of their own Blindness and Unbelief, Multitudes are willing to grant him to be a Prophet sent ⟨p. 68⟩of God, who do not, who will not, who cannot believe the Mystery of this Condescension in the Susception of our Nature, nor see the Glory of it. But take this away, and all our Religion is taken away with it. Farewell Christianity as unto the Mystery, the Glory, the Truth, the Efficacy of it; let a refined Heathenism be established in its Room. But this is the Rock on which the Church is built, against which the Gates of Hell shall not prevail.
IT is true, and must be confessed, that herein it is that our Lord Jesus Christ is a stumbling Stone, and a Rock of Offence unto the World. If we should confess him only as a Prophet, a Man sent by God, there would not be much Contest about him, not Opposition unto him. The Mahumetans do all acknowledge it, and the Jews would not long deny it; for their Hatred against him was, and is solely because he professed himself to be God, and as such was believed on in the World. And at this day partly through the Insinuation of the Socinians, and partly from the Efficacy of their own Blindness and Unbelief, Multitudes are willing to grant him to be a Prophet sent ⟨p. 68⟩of God, who do not, who will not, who cannot believe the Mystery of this Condescention in the Susception of our Nature, nor see the Glory of it. But take this away, and all our Religion is taken away with it. Farewel Christianity as unto the Mystery, the Glory, the Truth, the Efficacy of it; let a refined Heathenism be established in its Room. But this is the Rock on which the Church is built, against which the Gates of Hell shall not prevail.