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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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THE Apostle tells us concerning himself, and other Believers, when the Lord Christ was present, and conversed with them in the Days of his Flesh, that they saw his Glory, the Glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of Grace and Truth. Joh. 1. 14. And we may enquire, what was this Glory of Christ, which they so saw, and by what means they obtained a prospect of it? For (1.) It was not the Glory of his outward condition, as we behold the Glory and Grandeur of the Kings and Potentates of the Earth; For he made himself of no Reputation, but being in the Form of a Servant, he walked in the Condition of a Man of low Degree. The Secular Grandeur of his pretended Vicar, makes no Representation of that Glory of his, which his Disciples saw. He kept no Court, nor House of Entertainment, nor (though he made all things) had of his own where to lay his Head. Nor 2. Was it with respect to the outward Form of the Flesh which he was made, wherein he took our Nature on him, as we see the Glory of a comely or beautiful Person; For he had therein neither form nor comeliness, that he should be desired, his visage was so marred more than any Man, and his form more than the sons of men, Isa. 52. 14. Chap. 53. 2, 3. All things appeared in him as became a Man of Sorrows. Nor 3. Was it absolutely the Eternal Essential Glory of his Divine Nature, that is intended. For this no Man can see in this World. What we shall attain in a view thereof hereafter, we know not. But 4. It was his Glory, as he was full of Grace and Truth. They saw the Glory of his Person and his ⟨p. 8⟩Office in the Administration of Grace and Truth And how, or by what means did they see this Glory of Christ? It was by Faith, and no otherwise. For this Privilege was granted unto them only who received him, and believed on his name, ver. 12. This was that Glory which the Baptist saw, when upon his coming unto him he said unto all that were present, Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the Sin of the World, Joh. 1. 29, 30, 31, 32, 33.
THE Apostle tells us concerning himself, and other Believers, when the Lord Christ was present, and conversed with them in the Days of his Flesh, that they saw his Glory, the Glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of Grace and Truth.