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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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7. ACCORDING unto this Divine Order the Elect in all Ages are by the holy Spirit moving and acting on that Mass of the New Creation, formed and animated with spiritual Life, Light, Grace and Power unto the Glory of God. They are not called accidentally according unto the external Occasions and Causes of their Conversion unto God; but in every Age, at his own Time and Season, the holy Spirit communicates these things unto them, in the Order declared unto the Glory of God.
8. AND in the same manner is the whole New Creation preserved every Day: every moment there is vital Power and Strength, Mercy and Grace communicated in this Divine Order to all Believers in the World. There is a continual Influence from the Fountain, from the Head, into all the Members, whereby they all consist in him, are acted by him, who worketh in us both to will and to do of his own good pleasure: and the Apostle declares that the whole Constitution of Church-order is suited as an external Instrument to promote these Divine Communications, unto all the Members of the Church, it self Eph. 4. 13, 14, 15, 16.
THIS in general is the Order of Divine Communications, which is for the Substance of it continued in Heaven, and shall be so unto Eternity; For God is, and ever will be all and in all. But at present, it is invisible unto Eyes of Flesh, yea, the Reason of Men. Hence it is by the most despised, they see no Glory in it: But let us consider the Prayer of the Apostle, that it may be otherwise with us, Ephes. 1. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. For the Revelation made of the Glory of God in the old Creation, ⟨p. 123⟩is exceeding inferior to that which he makes of himself in the New.