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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.
HENCE the great Design of the Devil […] beginning of the Preaching of the Gospel, was to blind the Eyes of Men, and fill their Minds with Prejudices, that they might not behold this Glory of his; So the Apostle gives an Account of his Success in this Design, 2 Cor. 4. 3, 4. If our Gospel be hid, it is hid unto them that are lost, in whom the God of this World hath blinded the Minds of them that believe not, lest the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the Image of God, should shine unto them. By various Ways and Methods of Deceit, to secure the Reputation he had got, of being God of this World, by Pretences and Appearances of supernatural Power and Wisdom, he laboured to blind the Eyes of Men with Prejudices against that glorious Light of the Gospel, which proposed the Lord Christ as the only Image of God. This Blindness, this Darkness is cured in them that believe, by the mighty Power of God; For God who commanded the Light to shine out of Darkness, hath irradiated our Hearts with the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ, v. 6. wherein true, saving Faith doth consist. Under this Darkness perished the unbelieving World of Jews and Gentiles; and such is the present Condition of all by whom the Divine Person of Christ is denied; for no mere Creature can ever make a perfect Representation of God unto us. But we must a little further enquire into this Mystery.
HENCE the great Design of the Devil 〈…〉 beginning of the Preaching of the Gospel, was to blind the Eyes of Men, and fill their Minds with Prejudices, that they might not behold this Glory of his; So the Apostle gives an Account of his Success in this Design, 2 Cor. 4. 3, 4. If our Gospel be hid, it is hid unto them that are lost, in whom the God of this World hath blinded the Minds of them that believe not, lest the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the Image of God, should shine unto them. By various Ways and Methods of Deceit, to secure the Reputation he had got, of being God of this World, by Pretences and Appearances of supernatural Power and Wisdom, he laboured to blind the Eyes of Men with Prejudices against that glorious Light of the Gospel, which proposed the Lord Christ as the only Image of God. This Blindness, this Darkness is cured in them that believe, by the mighty Power of God; For God who commanded the Light to shine out of Darkness, hath irradiated our Hearts with the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ, v. 6. wherein true, saving Faith doth consist. Under this Darkness perished the unbelieving World of Jews and Gentiles; and such is the present Condition of all by whom the Divine Person of Christ is denied; for no mere Creature can ever make a perfect Representation of God unto us. But we must a little further enquire into this Mystery.