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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 2: The Glory of the Person of Christ, as the only Representative of God unto the Church.
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.
CHAP. II. The Glory of the Person of Christ, as the only Representative of God unto the Church.
THE Glory of Christ, is the Glory of the Person of Christ. So he calls it [Greek or Hebrew], Joh. 17. 28. That Glory which is mine, belongeth to me, unto my Person.
THE Glory of Christ, is the Glory of the Person of Christ. So he calls it 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Joh. 17. 28. That Glory which is mine, belongeth to me, unto my Person.
THE Person of Christ may be considered two ways. 1. Absolutely in it self. 2. In the Susception and Discharge of his Office, with what ensued thereon. His Glory on these distinct Accounts, is distinct and different; but all equally his own. How in both respects we may behold it by Faith, is that which we enquire into.
THE first thing wherein we may behold the Glory of the Person of Christ, God and Man, which was given him of his Father, consists in the Representation of the Nature of God, and of the Divine Person of the Father, unto the Church in him; For we behold the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ, 2 Cor. 4. 6. Otherwise we know it not, we see it not, we see nothing of it: that is the way of seeing and knowing God, declared in the Scripture, as our Duty and Blessedness. The Glory of God comprehends both the Holy Properties of his Nature, and the Counsels of his Will; and the Light of the Knowledge of these things, we have only in the Face or Person of Jesus Christ. Whatever obscure imperfect Notions we may have of them otherways, we cannot have [Greek or Hebrew] the Light of the Illuminating, irradiating Knowledge of the