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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.
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.
THE Essence of Faith consists in a due Ascription of Glory to God, Rom. 4. 20. This we cannot attain unto without the Manifestation of those Divine Excellencies unto us, wherein he is Glorious. This is done in Christ alone, so as that we may glorify God in a saving and acceptable Manner. He who discerns not the Glory of Divine Wisdom, Power, Goodness, Love and Grace, in the Person and Office of Christ, with the way of the Salvation of Sinners by him, is an Unbeliever.
THE Essence of Faith consists in a due Ascriptio of Glory to God, Rom. 4. 20. This we cannot attain unto without the Manifestation of those Divine Excellencies unto us, wherein he is Glorious. This is done in Christ alone, so as that we may glorifie God in a saving and acceptable Manner. He who discerns not the Glory of Divine Wisdom, Power, Goodness, Love and Grace, in the Person and Office of Christ, with the way of the Salvation of Sinners by him, is an Unbeliever.