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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.
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.
HEREIN then is the Lord Christ exceedingly glorious. Those who cannot behold this Glory of his by Faith, namely, as he is the great Divine Ordinance to represent God unto us, they know him not. In their Worship of him, they worship but an Image of their own devising.
YEA, in the Ignorance and Neglect hereof consists the formal Nature of Unbelief, even that which is inevitably ruinous unto the Souls of Men. He that discerns not the Representation of the Glory of God in the Person of Christ unto the Souls of Men, is an Unbeliever. Such was the State of the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles of old; They did not, they would not, they could not behold the Glory of God in him, nor how he did represent him. That this was both the Cause, and the Formal Nature of their Unbelief, the Apostle declares at large, 1 Cor. 1. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. Not to see the Wisdom of God, and the Power of God, and consequently all the other holy Properties of his Nature in Christ, is to be an Unbeliever.