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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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LET us now on the other hand, take a little Consideration of that Vision▪ which we shall have of the same Glory in Heaven, that we may compare them together.
VISION or the sight which we shall have of the glory of Christ in Heaven, is immediate, direct, intuitive, and therefore steady, even and constant: And it is so on a double Account. (1.) Of the Object which shall be proposed unto us. (2.) Of the Visive Power or faculty wherewith we shall be endued; from the imperfection of both which in this World, ariseth the imperfection of our view of the glory of Christ by faith, as hath been declared.
VISION or the sight which we shall have of the glory of Christ in Heaven, is immediate, direct, intuitive, and therefore steady, even and constant: And it is so on a double Account. (1.) Of the Object which shall be proposed unto us. (2.) Of the Visivé Power or faculty wherewith we shall be endued; from the imperfection of both which in this World, ariseth the imperfection of our view of the glory of Christ by faith, as hath been declared.
1. THE Object of it will be real and substantial. Christ himself in his own person with all his glory, shall be continually with us, before us, proposed unto us. We shall no longer have an Image, a Representation of him, such as is the delineation of his Glory in the Gospel. We shall see him, saith the Apostle, face to face; 1 Cor. 13. 12. which he opposeth unto our seeing him darkly as in a glass, which is the utmost that faith can attain to. We shall see him as he is, 1 Joh. 3. 2, not as now in an imperfect description of him. As a man sees his neighbour when they stand and converse together face to face; So shall we see the Lord Christ in his glory, and not as Moses who had only a transient sight of some parts of the Glory of God, when he caused it to pass by him.