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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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AND therefore those who dream of his Personal Reign on the earth before the day of Judgment, unless they suppose that all the Saints shall be perfectly glorified also (which is only to bring down Heaven to the Earth for a while, to no purpose) provide not at all for the edification or consolation of the Church. For no present grace advanced unto the highest degree whereof in this World it is capable, can make us meet for an immediate converse with Christ in his unveiled Glory.
AND therefore those who dream of his Personal Reign on the earth before the day of Judgment, unless they suppose that all the Saints shall be perfectly glorified also (which is only to bring down Heaven to the Earth for a while, to no purpose) provide not at all for the edification or consolation of the Church. For no present grace advanced unto the highest degree whereof in this World it is capable, can make us meet for an immediate converse with Christ in his unvailed Glory.
How much more abominable is the folly of men, who would represent the Lord Christ in his present Glory by Pictures and Images of him? When they have done their utmost with their burnished Glass and Gildings, an eye of flesh cannot only behold it, but if it be guided by reason, see it contemptible and foolish. But the true Glory of Christ neither inward nor outward sight can bear the rays of in this life.
How much more abominable is the folly of men, who would represent the Lord Christ in his present Glory by Pictures and Images of him? When they have done their utmost with their burnished Glass and Guildings, an eye of flesh cannot only behold it, but if it be guided by reason, see it contemptible and foolish. But the true Glory of Christ neither inward nor outward sight can bear the rays of in this life.
THE dispensation which we are meet for is only that of his presence with us by his Spirit. We know him now no more after the flesh,