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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.
I HAVE thought my self on many accounts obliged to cast my Mite into this Treasury. And I have chosen so to do, not in a way of controversy (which formerly I have engaged in) but so▪ a• together with the vindication ⟨p. 5⟩of the Truth, to promote the strengthening of the Faith of true Believers, their Edification in the Knowledge of it; and to express the Experience which they have, or may have of the Power and Reality of th•se things.
I HAVE thought my self on many accounts obliged to cast my Mite into this Treasury. And I have chosen so to do, not in a way of controversie (which formerly I have engaged in) but so▪ a• together with the vindica•ion ⟨p. 5⟩of the Truth, to promote the strengthning of the Faith of true Believers, their Edification in the Know•edge of it; and to express the Experience which they have, or may have of the Power and Reality of th•se •hings.
THAT which at present I design to Demonstrate is, That the Beholding of the Glory of Christ, is one of the greatest Privileges and Advancements that Believers are capable •f in this World, or that which is to come. It is that whereby they are first gradually conformed unto it, and then fixed in the Eternal enjoyment of it. For here in this life, beholding his Glory, they are changed or transformed into the likeness of it,