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Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…
Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decays : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decayes : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...
London: printed by J.A. for William Marshall, 1691
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BUT herein it is required, that we rest not in the Notion of this Truth, and a bare Assent unto the Doctrine of it. The affecting Power of it upon our Hearts, is that which we should aim at. Wherein doth the Blessedness of the Saints above consist? Is it not herein, that they behold and see the Glory of God in Christ? And what is the Effect of it upon those blessed Souls? Doth it not change them into the same Image, or make them like unto Christ? Doth it not fill and satiate them with Joy, Rest Delight, Complacency and ineffable Satisfaction? Do we expect, do we desire the same State of Blessedness? It is our present View of the Glory of Christ which is our Initiation thereinto, if we are exercised in it, ⟨p. 36⟩until we have an Experience of its Transforming Power in our Souls.
THESE things are, it may be, of little use unto some. Such as are Babes in spiritual Knowledge and Understanding, either because they are Carnal, 1 Cor. 3. 1, 2. or slothful in hearing, Heb. 5. 12, 13, 14. are not capable of these Divine Mysteries. And therefore the Apostle did in an especial manner declare this Wisdom of God in a Mystery unto them that were perfect, 1 Cor. 2. 6, 7. That is, who were more grown in spiritual Knowledge, and had their Senses exercised to discern Good and Evil. It is unto them who are exercised in the Contemplation of invisible things, who delight to walk in the more retired Paths of Faith and Love, to whom they are precious.
SOME few Inferences from the Whole of what hath been declared, shall put a Close to this part of our Discourse.