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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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ALL Unbelievers do in their Heart call Christ Ichabod; Where is the Glory? They see neither form nor comeliness in him, that he should be desired. They look on him as Michael Saul's Daughter did on David dancing before the Ark, when she despised him in her Heart. They do not indeed (many of them) call Jesus Anathema, but cry, Hail Master, and then Crucify him.
ALL Unbelievers do in their Heart call Christ Ichabod; Where is the Glory? They see neither form nor comeliness in him, that he should be desired. They look on him as Michael Saul's Daughter did on David dancing before the Ark, when she despised him in her Heart. They do not indeed (many of them) call Jesus Anathema, but cry, Hail Master, and then Crucifie him.
HENCE have we so many Cursed Opinions advanced in derogation unto his Glory, some of them really destructive of all that is truly so; yea denying the only Lord that bought us, and substituting a false Christ in his room. And others there are who express their slight thoughts of him and his glory, by bold irreverent enquiries, of what use his person is in our Religion; as though there were any thing in our Religion, that hath either Reality, Substance, or Truth, but by virtue of its Relation thereunto. And by their Answers, they bring their own Enquiries yet nearer unto the borders of Blasphemy.
HENCE have we so many Cursed Opinions advanced in derogation unto his Glory, some of them really destructive of all that is truly so; yea denying the only Lord that bought us, and substituting a false Christ in his room. And others there are who express their slight thoughts of him and his glory, by bold irreverent enquiries, of what use his person is in our Religion; as though there were any thing in our Religion, that hath either Reality, Substance, or Truth, but by vertue of its Relation thereunto. And by their Answers, they bring their own Enquiries yet nearer unto the borders of Blasphemy.