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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.
THE illustrious Brightness wherewith this Glory shines in Heaven, the All satisfying Sweetness which the view of it gives unto the Souls of the Saints there Possessed of Glory, are not by us conceivable nor to be expressed. Here this love passeth knowledge, there we shall comprehend the Dimensions of it. Yet even here, if we are not slothful and carnal, we may have a refreshing prospect of it; and where Comprehension fail•, let Admiration take place.
MY present Business is to exhort others unto the Contemplation of it, though it be but a little, a very little, a small portion of it, that I can conceive; and less than that very little, that I can express. Yet may it be my duty to excite not only my self, but others also unto due Enquiries after it, unto which End I offer the things ensuing.
1. LABOUR that your minds may continually be fitted and prepared for such Heavenly Contemplations. If they are carnal and sensual, or filled with earthly things, a due sense of this Love of Christ and its Glory, will not abide in them. Virtue and Vice in their highest Degrees are not more diametrically opposite and inconsistent in the same mind, than ⟨p. 81⟩are an habitual Course of sensual worldly Thoughts, and a due Contemplation of the Glory of the Love of Christ: Yea, an earnestness of Spirit, pregnant with a multitude of Thoughts about the lawful Occasions of Life, is obstructive of all due Communion with the Lord Jesus Christ herein.
1. LABOVR that your minds may continually be fitted and prepared for s•ch Heavenly Contemplations. If they are carnal and sensual, or filled with earthly things, a due sense of this Love of Christ and its Glory, will not abide in them. Vertue and Vice in their highest Degrees are not more diametrically opposite and inconsistent in the same mind, than