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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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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.
NEVER was there an Age since the name of Christians was known upon the Earth, wherein there was such a direct Opposition made unto the Person and Glory of Christ, as there is in that wherein we live. There were indeed in the first Times of the Church, swarms of proud, doting, brainsick persons, who vented many foolish imaginations about him, which issued at length in Arianism, in whose Ruins they were buried. The Gates of Hell in them, prevailed not against the Rock on which the Church is built. But as it was said of Caesar, Solus accessie sobrius, ad perdendam Rempublicam; He alone went soberly about the Destruction of the Commonwealth; So we now have great Numbers who oppose the Person and Glory of Christ, under a pretence of Sobriety of Reason, as they vainly plead. Yea, the disbelief of the Mysteries of the Trinity, and the Incarnation of the Son of God, the sole Foundation of Christian Religion, is so diffused in the World, as that it hath almost devoured the power and vitals of it. And not a few, who dare not yet express their minds, do give broad intimations of their intentions and good will towards him, in making them the Object of their scorn and reproach, who desire to know nothing but him, and him Crucified.