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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 8: Representations of the Glory of Christ under the Old Testament.
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.
OF the same Nature was his Glorious Appearance on Mount Sinai at the giving of the Law, Exod. 19. For the description thereof by the Psalmist, Psal. 68. 17, 18. is applied by the Apostle unto the Ascension of Christ after his Resurrection, Ephes. 4. 8, 9, 10, 11. Only as it ⟨p. 102⟩was then full of outward Terror, because of the giving of the fiery Law, it was referred unto by the Psalmist, as full of Mercy, with respect unto his Accomplishment of the same Law. His giving of it was as Death unto them concerned, because of its Holiness, and the severity of the the Curse wherewith it was attended; his fulfilling of it was Life, by the Pardon and Righteousness which issued from thence.
OF the same Nature was his Glorious Appearance on Mount Sinai at the giving of the Law, Exod. 19. For the description thereof by the Psalmist, Psal. 68. 17, 18. is applyed by the Apostle unto the Ascension of Christ after his Resurrection, Ephes. 4. 8, 9, 10, 11. Only as it ⟨p. 102⟩was then full of outward Terror, because of the giving of the fiery Law, it was referred unto by the Psalmist, as full of Mercy, with respect unto his Accomplishment of the same Law. His giving of it was as Death unto them concerned, because of its Holiness, and the severity of the the Curse wherewith it was attended; his fulfilling of it was Life, by the Pardon and Righteousness which issued from thence.