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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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HENCE the ground and cause of our Blessedness is, that we shall be ever with the Lord, 1 Thes. 4. 17. As himself prays, that we may be with him where he is, to behold his glory: Here we have some dark views of it, we cannot perfectly behold it, until we are with him where he is. Thereon our sight of him will be direct, intuitive, and constant.
THERE is a glory, there will be so subjectively in us in the beholding of this glory of Christ, which is at present incomprehensible. For it doth not yet appear what we our selves shall be, 1 John, 3. 2. Who can declare what a glory it will be in us to behold this Glory of Christ? And how excellent then is that glory of Christ it self?
THIS immediate sight of Christ, is that which all the Saints of God in this life do breath and pant after. Hence are they willing to be dissolved, or desire to depart, that they may be with Christ, which is best for them, Phil. 1. 23. They choose to be absent from the body and present with the Lord, 2 Cor. 5. 8. Or that they may enjoy the inexpressibly longed for sight of Christ in his glory. Those who do not so long for it, whose souls and minds are not frequently visited with earnest desires after it, unto whom the thoughts of it are not their relief in Trouble, and their chiefest Joy, are carnal, blind, and cannot see afar off. ⟨p. 147⟩He that is truly spiritual, entertains and refresheth himself with thoughts hereof continually.