John Owen on the Glorious Christ
He, and he alone, declares, represents, and makes known, unto angels and men, the essential glory of the invisible God, his attributes and his will; without which, a perpetual comparative darkness would have been the whole creation, especially that part of it here below.
This is the foundation of our religion, the Rock whereon the church is built, the ground of all our hopes of 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.
This is the foundation of our religion, the Rock whereon the church is built, the ground of all our hopes of 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.
posted by ipastorwill at 5:51 PM
1 Comments:
Gotta love those puritans. Owen is one of those I have to read and re-read slowly, but he rarely disappoints. I've just begun preaching through John's gospel, so I've been meditating on what it means when Scripture says, "We beheld His glory."
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