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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.
SOME by them make provision for the flesh, to fulfil it in the Lusts thereof, as Rom. 13. 14. They search about continually in their Thoughts for Objects suited unto their Lusts and carnal Affections, coining, framing and stamping of them in their Imaginations. They fix their ⟨p. 44⟩Eyes with delight on Toads and Serpents, with all noisome filthy Objects; refusing in the mean time, to behold the Beauty and Glory of the Light of the Sun. So is it with all that spend their Thoughts about the Objects of their sinful Pleasures, refusing to look up after one view of this Glory of Christ.
SOME by them make provision for the flesh, to fulfil it in the Lusts thereof, as Rom. 13. 14. They search about continually in their Thoughts for Objects suited unto their Lusts and carnal Affections, coyning, framing and stamping of them in their Imaginations. They fix their ⟨p. 44⟩Eyes with delight on Toads and Serpents, with all noisome filthy Objects; refusing in the mean time, to behold the Beauty and Glory of the Light of the Sun. So is it with all that spend their Thoughts about the Objects of their sinful Pleasures, refusing to look up after one view of this Glory of Christ.
SOME keep their Thoughts in continual Exercise about the Things of this World, as unto the Advantages and Emoluments which they expect from them. Hereby are they transformed into the Image of the World, becoming earthly, carnal and vain. Is it because there is no God in Israel that these Applications are made unto the Idol of Ekron? That there is no Glory, no desirableness in Christ for Men to enquire after, and fix their Minds upon? Oh the blindness, the darkness, the folly of poor sinners? Whom do they despise, and for what?