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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
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 chuse 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.
2. IT will be so from that Visive Power or faculty of beholding the Glory of Christ, which we shall then receive. Without this we cannot see him as he is. When he was transfigured in the Mount, and had on his Human Nature some reflections of his Divine Glory, his Disciples that were with him, were rather amazed, than refreshed by it.