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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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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.
HAVING premised these things in general concerning the Glory of Divine Communications, I shall proceed to declare in particular, the Grounds and Way whereby the Lord Christ communicates himself, and therewithal all the Benefits of his Mediation, unto them that do believe, as it was before proposed.
WE on our part are said herein to receive him, and that by Faith, John 1. 11, 12. Now where he is received by us, he must be tendered, given, granted, or communicated unto us. And this he is by some divine Acts of the Father, and some of his own.
WE on our part are said herein to receive him, and that by Faith, John 1. 11, 12. Now where he is received by us, he must be tendred, given, granted, or communicated unto us. And this he is by some divine Acts of the Father, and some of his own.