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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.
IN his Divine Person absolutely considered, he is the Essential Image of God, even the Father: He is in the Father, and the Father in him, in the Unity of the same Divine Essence, Joh. 14. 10. Now he is with the Father, John 1. 1. In the Distinction of his Person, so is he his Essential Image, Col. 1. 15. Heb. 1. 2. In his Incarnation he becomes the Representative Image of God unto the Church, 2 Cor. 4. 6. without whom our Understandings can make no such Approach unto the Divine Excellencies, but that God continues to be unto us, what he is in himself, the Invisible God. In the Face of Jesus Christ, we see his Glory.
THIS is the Original Glory of Christ given him by his Father, and which by Faith we may behold: He, and he alone declares, represents and makes known unto Angels and Men, the Essential Glory of the Invisible God, his Attributes and his Will, without which, a perpetual comparative Darkness would have been on the whole Creation, especially that part of it here below.
THIS is the Foundation of our Religion, the Rock whereon the Church is built, the Ground of all our Hopes of ⟨p. 16⟩Salvation, of Life and Immortality: All is resolved into this; namely, the Representation that is made of the Nature and Will of God, in the Person and Office of Christ: If this fail us, we are lost for ever; if this Rock stand firm, the Church is safe here, and shall be triumphant hereafter.