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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
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. LET us get it fixed on our Souls, and in our Minds, that this Glory of Christ in the Divine Constitution of his Person, is the best, the most noble, useful, beneficial Object, that we can be conversant about in our Thoughts, or or cleave unto in our Affections.
What are all other things in comparison of the Knowledge of Christ? In the Judgment of the great Apostle, they are but Loss and Dung, Phil. 3. 8, 9, 10. So they were to him, and if they are not so to us, we are carnal.
WHAT is the World, and what are the things thereof which most men spend their Thoughts about, and fix their Affections on? The Psalmist gives his Judgment about them, in comparison of a View of this Glory of Christ, Psal. 4. 6. Many say, who will show us any good? Who will give and help us to attain so much in and of this World, as will give Rest and Satisfaction unto our Minds? That is the good enquired after. But, saith he, Lord lift up the Light of thy Countenance upon us. The Light of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ Jesus, is that satisfactory Good alone, which I desire and seek after.
WHAT is the World, and what are the things thereof which most men spend their Thoughts about, and fix their Affections on? The Psalmist gives his Judgment about them, in comparison of a View of this Glory of Christ, Psal. 4. 6. Many say, who will shew us any good? Who will give and help us to attain so much in and of this World, as will give Rest and Satisfaction unto our Minds? That is the good enquired after. But, saith he, Lord lift up the Light of thy Countenance upon us. The Light of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ Jesus, is that satisfactory Good alone, which I desire and seek after.