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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.
SINCE Men fell from God by sin, it is no small part of their Misery and Punishment, that they are covered with thick Darkness and Ignorance of the Nature of God. They know him not, they have not seen him at any time. Hence is that Promise to the Church in Christ, Isa. 60. 1, 2. For behold the Darkness shall cover the Earth, and gross Darkness the People: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his Glory shall be seen upon thee.
THE Ancient Philosophers made great Enquiries into, and obtained many Notions of the Divine Being, its Existence ⟨p. 18⟩[…] And these Notions they adorned with great Elegance of Speech, to allure others unto the Admiration of them. Hereon they boasted themselves to be the only Wise Men in the World, Rom. 1. 22. [Greek or Hebrew] they boasted that they were the Wise: But we must abide in the Judgement of the Apostles, concerning them in their Enquiries: He assures us, that the World in its Wisdom, that is, these wise Men in it by their Wisdom knew not God, 1 Cor. 1. 21. And he calls the Authors of their best Notions Atheists, or Men without God in the Word, Ephes. 2. 12. For,
THE Antient Philosophers made great Enquiries into, and obtained many Notions of the Divine Being, its Existence ⟨p. 18⟩〈…〉 And these Notions they adorned with great Elegancy of Speech, to allure others unto the Admiration of them. Hereon they boasted themselves to be the only Wise Men in the World, Rom. 1. 22