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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.
1. THEY had no certain Guide, Rule, nor Light, which being attended unto, might lead them infallibly into the Knowledge of the Divine Nature: All they had of this Kind, was their own [Greek or Hebrew] their Reasonings or Imaginations, whereby they commenced [Greek or Hebrew] the great Disputers of the World; but in them they waxed vain, and their foolish Heart was darkened, Rom. 1. 21. They did at best but endeavour [Greek or Hebrew], to feel after God, as Men do in the Dark, after what they cannot clearly discern, Acts 17. 27. Among others, Cicero's Book De Natura Deorum, gives us an exact Account of the Intention of the Apostle in that Expression. And it is at this Day not Want of Wit, but Hatred of the Mysteries of our Religion, which makes so many prone to forgo all Supernatural Revelation, and to betake themselves unto a Religion declared, as they suppose, by Reason, and the Light of Nature; like Bats and Owls, who being not able to bear the Light of the Sun, betake themselves unto the Twi-light, to the Dawnings of Light and Darkness.
1. THEY had no certain Guide, Rule, nor Light, which being attended unto, might lead them infallibly into the Knowledge of the Divine Nature: All they had of this Kind, was their own 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 their Reasonings or Imaginations, whereby they commenced 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the great Disputers of the World; but in them they waxed vain, and their foolish Heart was darkned, Rom. 1. 21. They did at best but endeavour 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to feel after God, as Men do in the Dark, after what they cannot clearly discern, Acts 17. 27. Among others, Cicero's Book De Natura Deorum, gives us an exact Account of the Intention of the Apostle in that Expression. And it is at this Day not Want of Wit, but Hatred of the Mysteries of our Religion, which makes so many prone to forgo all Supernatural Revelation, and to betake themselves unto a Religion declared, as they suppose, by Reason, and the Light of Nature; like Bats and Owls, who being not able to bear the Light of the Sun, betake themselves unto the Twi-light, to the Dawnings of Light and Darkness.