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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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4. THE Sight of the Glory of Christ, is the Spring and Cause of our Everlasting Blessedness. We shall be ever with the Lord, 1 Thes. 4. 17. Or, be with Christ, which is best of all. Phil. 1. 23. For there shall we behold his Glory, Joh. 17. 24. and by seeing him as he is, we shall be made like him, 1 Joh. 3. 2. which is our Everlasting Blessedness.
THE Enjoyment of God by Sight, is commonly called the Beatifical Vision; and it is the sole Fountain of all the Actings of our Souls in the State of Blessedness, which the old Philosophers knew nothing of; neither do we know distinctly what they are, or what is this Sight of God. Howbeit, this we know, that God in his Immense Essence is invisible unto our Corporeal Eyes, and will be so to Eternity; as also incomprehensible unto our Minds. For nothing can perfectly comprehend that which is Infinite, but what is it self Infinite. Wherefore the Blessed and Blessing Sight which we shall have of God, will be always in the Face of Jesus Christ. Therein will that Manifestation of the Glory of God in his Infinite Perfections, ⟨p. 15⟩and all their blessed Operations, so shine into our Souls, as shall immediately fill us with Peace, Rest, and Glory.
THESE things we here admire, but cannot comprehend. We know not well what we say, when we speak of them: yet is there in True Believers a Fore-sight, and Fore-taste of this Glorious Condition. There enters sometimes by the Word and Spirit into their hearts such a sense of the uncreated Glory of God, shining forth in Christ, as Affects and Satiates their Souls with ineffable Joy. Hence ariseth that Peace of God which is above all understanding, keeping our Hearts and Minds through Jesus Christ.